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Fifty one percent attack
Derived node: assembled mechanically from the claims carrying fifty-one-percent-attack. A roster, not an adjudicated definition.
Every claim under this term
- 3125822-016 : A 51 percent collusion that votes against common sense is visible in an open system, which erodes trust, reduces use and fees, and lowers the value of the attackers' own reputational salary, so the ta
- 3125822-017 : The author concedes an arbitrage attack is feasible when experts fail to police their expertise and a significant share of the technically fungible tokens is offered on an exchange, since a malicious
- 3125822-019 : In the absolute worst case, with no safeguards at all, the price of corrupting the platform from within is a minimum of twice the total historical fees added to the system, and instituting any obvious
- 3125822-020 : Even a successful takeover yields the attacker only a fraction of one transaction's fee before the expertise tag topples, so as long as any single fee is smaller than the total reputation there is no
- 3125822-021 : Acquiring 51 percent of the tokens by paying fees and winning betting pools costs roughly six times the value of the entire quantity of sem tokens in a healthy expertise, even when the bench makes no
- 3125822-022 : If good faith experts counter invest at least as fast as the malicious group, that is at a constant fraction c greater than or equal to one of the malicious investment, the malicious group can never g
- 3125822-035 : The author contests Houy's claim that killing a proof of stake currency costs nothing: on this platform the token's value is calculably predictable rather than merely a function of public opinion, and
- 3125822-041 : If 51 percent of users collude to enrich themselves maliciously, nothing in the design can prevent them; the only check is the openness of the system, which would quickly detect such an attack.
- 3411110-013 : The double spending problem has not been eradicated in theory: a group or syndicate obtaining 51 percent control of a network could reverse transactions and create a private chain that the market coul