Worst a 51% attack could do is halt confirmations of all transactions until the hashrate drops. Not really a problem.
that's still a dos attack, and that's still a problem
until the hashrate drops or like within 10 minutes.
I'm not sure I understand, if the hashrate drops significantly, it could take longer than 2 weeks for it to adjust.
blocks would be very slow in the meantime,
it's still a denial of service attack.
is it not?
When the POOL'S hashrate drops.
ah, ok, so they drop below 50 and the attack is dead?
my point is that the possibility of the 51% attack is something that needs to be addressed. so we either test it and find out now, or we just sit around and talk about it until some time down the road someone pulls it off and kills the network?
"kill the network"
Didn't we just go over this