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Topic: 51% attack against Bytecoin imminent? - page 2. (Read 3613 times)

legendary
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April 06, 2013, 06:08:06 AM
#29
Bytecoin is ridiculous.  We all know it, some people are just mining it on the off chance that people's IQ's suddenly drop sharply and this thing takes off.

To be honest I'm a little embarrassed that it's been allowed to carry on as long as it has.  This community should be smarter than that.

when transaction fees begin to become a problem for people they are going to look for an alt chains to use to avoid those fees. Since bitcoin1 worked so well why not a bitcoin2? its familiar, its tried and tested, we know it works we know its reliable we know it has the full weight of the bitcoin development team behind it.

Dont get me wrong im all for innovation, but only legitimate innovation, not changing a few properties just for the sake of it, just so you can say that your altcoin is different. Thats the sort of "innovation" we see in all altcoins (that or they are broken like ppc). If that is the sort of innovation we are being offered than i say no thanks, ill stick with good old bitcoin and since good old bitcoin is going to run out of room eventually, ill move on to good old bitcoin2. Of course that is subject to change if someone does happen to create a cryptocurrency that is legitimately innovative, and a bet on bitcoin2 is a bet on the chance that this doesnt happen, how ever likely that may or may not be.
hero member
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April 06, 2013, 05:29:32 AM
#28
Bytecoin is ridiculous.  We all know it, some people are just mining it on the off chance that people's IQ's suddenly drop sharply and this thing takes off.

To be honest I'm a little embarrassed that it's been allowed to carry on as long as it has.  This community should be smarter than that.
legendary
Activity: 1722
Merit: 1217
April 06, 2013, 05:10:26 AM
#27
Ok i expect that this is wrong but here is a theory. (ive never mined an alt coin before this one)

perhaps since bytecoin is a clone of bitcoin it is very easy for miners to adapt their current setup with very little extra effort, where as with mining litecoin for example they would have reconfigure a lot of stuff and they dont see it as worth their time.

This is true,.

Well it looks like the hashrate as gone down a bit. I'm really curious if this will still be around in a months time.

I think a lot of people might have switched to mine a few coins just incase :p

i think it has a lot of potential. One single blockchain can not hold every transaction in the world for long and since bitcoin1 worked so well, why mess with a good thing, just use bitcoin2 to hold the overflow, and bitcoin3 if it ever comes to that ect....

So would btc 1,2,and 3 be priced near the same?

almost certainly not. the original will always be most valuable and number 2 would almost certainly be more valuable than number 3 ect...
legendary
Activity: 1652
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April 06, 2013, 03:11:46 AM
#26
I just noticed a checkpoint has been placed at Bytecoin's block 12305.


How does one set a checkpoint?

Hard coded into project code.
legendary
Activity: 1176
Merit: 1015
April 06, 2013, 02:23:40 AM
#25
I just noticed a checkpoint has been placed at Bytecoin's block 12305.


How does one set a checkpoint?
legendary
Activity: 1652
Merit: 1016
April 06, 2013, 01:31:53 AM
#24
Will you take down the Euro as well?

I think it doing that itself without our intervention.
legendary
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Merit: 1005
April 06, 2013, 01:11:28 AM
#23
Lets take down BTE, and while we are at it, lets also destroy LTC Grin Grin
legendary
Activity: 1652
Merit: 1016
April 06, 2013, 12:34:26 AM
#22
I just noticed a checkpoint has been placed at Bytecoin's block 12305.
sr. member
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Merit: 250
April 05, 2013, 11:45:52 PM
#21
I'm not going to take this april fools currency seriously. One day before or after and I'd be on it. I think this currency is a trolls work.
sr. member
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dafq is goin on
April 05, 2013, 11:11:30 PM
#20
Yawn Bytecoin
legendary
Activity: 1722
Merit: 1217
April 05, 2013, 02:09:09 PM
#19
Ok i expect that this is wrong but here is a theory. (ive never mined an alt coin before this one)

perhaps since bytecoin is a clone of bitcoin it is very easy for miners to adapt their current setup with very little extra effort, where as with mining litecoin for example they would have reconfigure a lot of stuff and they dont see it as worth their time.

This is true,.

Well it looks like the hashrate as gone down a bit. I'm really curious if this will still be around in a months time.

I think a lot of people might have switched to mine a few coins just incase :p

i think it has a lot of potential. One single blockchain can not hold every transaction in the world for long and since bitcoin1 worked so well, why mess with a good thing, just use bitcoin2 to hold the overflow, and bitcoin3 if it ever comes to that ect....
member
Activity: 70
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April 05, 2013, 01:51:23 PM
#18
The network hash rate is back down to 186 GH/s. The asic(s) must have moved on.
legendary
Activity: 1176
Merit: 1015
April 05, 2013, 11:16:27 AM
#17
Ok i expect that this is wrong but here is a theory. (ive never mined an alt coin before this one)

perhaps since bytecoin is a clone of bitcoin it is very easy for miners to adapt their current setup with very little extra effort, where as with mining litecoin for example they would have reconfigure a lot of stuff and they dont see it as worth their time.

This is true,.

Well it looks like the hashrate as gone down a bit. I'm really curious if this will still be around in a months time.

I think a lot of people might have switched to mine a few coins just incase :p
newbie
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Merit: 0
April 05, 2013, 11:15:24 AM
#16
Ok i expect that this is wrong but here is a theory. (ive never mined an alt coin before this one)

perhaps since bytecoin is a clone of bitcoin it is very easy for miners to adapt their current setup with very little extra effort, where as with mining litecoin for example they would have reconfigure a lot of stuff and they dont see it as worth their time.
I think you may be right.
You don't really need to change anything except the pool.
legendary
Activity: 1722
Merit: 1217
April 05, 2013, 11:11:36 AM
#15
Ok i expect that this is wrong but here is a theory. (ive never mined an alt coin before this one)

perhaps since bytecoin is a clone of bitcoin it is very easy for miners to adapt their current setup with very little extra effort, where as with mining litecoin for example they would have reconfigure a lot of stuff and they dont see it as worth their time.
legendary
Activity: 1176
Merit: 1015
April 05, 2013, 10:18:54 AM
#14
Bytecoin now running at over 1TH/s vs Bitcoins 49TH/s

This means bytecoin is now running at a hashrate 2% of Bitcoin.

This must be unprecedented right? A alt coin growing this fast?

If the price is set as a function of computing power then Bytecoins, once the difficulty has caught up (It can't retarget quick enough at the moment because so much power has been added) should be worth 1/50 of a Bitcoin which makes a Bytecoin worth about $2

Which is obviously insane.

What this tells us is either someone is trying for 51% or people are just speculating with their mining rigs to see what happens.


Where do you get those numbers?

Bytecoin network Hashrate at the bottom
http://pool.bytecoin.in/

Bitcoin network Hashrate
https://vircurex.com/
http://blockchain.info/stats

Details about largest allowed retarget jumps
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Target
legendary
Activity: 1176
Merit: 1015
April 05, 2013, 10:15:45 AM
#13
I think I figured it out!

Because the retarget has a maximum limit of *4 times current difficulty, many people are going to mine this coin until their is a equilibrium because this is the only time people will be able to make more coins than they should because blocks are going to be mined faster than the 10 minutes until the retargets are correct and the block time is back to what is should 10 minutes.

For example, if 10 times the computing power was added to Bitcoin right now, the difficulty cannot be 10 times for the next retarget, but 4 times and then the network has to wait until another retarget before it can be at the right value.*


*I heard the max retarget in regards to bitcoin was 4 times current difficulty, this stops the network growing out of control to fast. and because Bytecoin is a duplicate, I imagine this will be the same.
legendary
Activity: 952
Merit: 1000
April 05, 2013, 10:11:12 AM
#12
Bytecoin now running at over 1TH/s vs Bitcoins 49TH/s

This means bytecoin is now running at a hashrate 2% of Bitcoin.

This must be unprecedented right? A alt coin growing this fast?

If the price is set as a function of computing power then Bytecoins, once the difficulty has caught up (It can't retarget quick enough at the moment because so much power has been added) should be worth 1/50 of a Bitcoin which makes a Bytecoin worth about $2

Which is obviously insane.

What this tells us is either someone is trying for 51% or people are just speculating with their mining rigs to see what happens.


Where do you get those numbers?
legendary
Activity: 1176
Merit: 1015
April 05, 2013, 10:09:51 AM
#11
Bytecoin now running at over 1TH/s vs Bitcoins 49TH/s

This means bytecoin is now running at a hashrate 2% of Bitcoin.

This must be unprecedented right? A alt coin growing this fast?

If the price is set as a function of computing power then Bytecoins, once the difficulty has caught up (It can't retarget quick enough at the moment because so much power has been added) should be worth 1/50 of a Bitcoin which makes a Bytecoin worth about $2

Which is obviously insane.

What this tells us is either someone is trying for 51% or people are just speculating with their mining rigs to see what happens.

hero member
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Merit: 1000
www.multipool.us
April 05, 2013, 09:54:31 AM
#10
Maybe, although the difficulty is over 4000 at the moment. The re-target will be at 16,000 diff, maybe people will drop of then?
WHAT 4000
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