Network hashrate almost doubled since you posted this, attack could be going at this moment...hope they change algo soon
C'mon guys, I guess you're long enough in crypto to know better.
Yes, that might be power cost for 51% attack, but it's same like claiming it needs only $50 (for a handgun), to get a lot more by robbing a bank.
Double spend is fraudulent activity. Anyone can do it, but they should be prepared for the consequences.
Be serious...
this is very serious ~ if someone can spend less tha $100 to 51% the coin then what are the developers doing to stop this?
Many other coins' teams are taking direct action now to mitigate this, and we already know what the response time is for anything getting done with emc2...zzz
*yawn*
We are implementing a new algo in the next few months which will further decentralize the mining. Beyond that, masternodes are coming in he fall. Additionally we work hand in hand with the exchanges who have massive resources to defend against attacks. Furthermore, we are implementing features in the next few months which will make mining and transferring of emc2 very transparent. So only way to attack would be to do so in a very public way and guarantee being caught by the authorities. Patience is key with new tech. Bugs will be fixed, security will improve.
For the people that are not informed enough,
Attacks are actually good things. They test the coin and also test the team and everything else.
They are like viruses causing cold/flu. If it happens things get cleared and life moves on. Your immune system gets stronger.
The B.S. website posted above shows some data that might have some theory behind but are actually more of a story for kids.
We had the real attacks, and we had so many of them last year, starting from June. On every Wormhole we had profit hunting attack which had same effect. 400x more hash than what would be natural for the chain (volume/price) would come to mine EMC2 and cause all kinds of problems like orphan blocks, fluctuations in difficulty, destroying pools and mining community...
Just to show some numbers: Our regular hash at that time was 10Ghs (now ~200Ghs, we grew) and we were able to see peaks of 4TH (at that time LTC hash rate was about 1.5 THs, so almost 3 times more than the whole LTC network)
The whole mining world would come to mine EMC2, and not only that they would compete using all kinds of tactics...
And? We survived and here we are!
It only forced us to learn blockchain technology to go through all of this.
That's why I am free to say that EMC2 has one of the best tech teams in crypto world and EMC2 will do so much going further.
While so many coins have no core knowledge and are switching to ERC20 looking all the same, we can do whatever we want now.
This is the reason why EMC2 will have such good releases, Ben mentioned them, in coming months. Live learn.
Happy trading!
Malden