So a potential attacker only needs something like 60 high end cpus or about 1000 really crappy ones to have a good chance at forking and overtaking the tbx chain, about 1/8 that for fbx.
good information and this is why I am planning to stay away from CPU coins for a while
All you need is a some asshole with a botnet and you can say bye-bye to all your mined coins.
Unless you immediately convert them to a more secure currency. Shifting the risk to anyone willing to hold the less secure currency.
Which is why I don't mind leaping into every shitcoin pyramid to come along as long as I'm in early and there's an exchange. I figure I have at least a week or two before anyone will bother attacking and so far I'm at 100% at beating the "pre mined" coins to the exit.