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Fracturedmind, you are surrounded by disrespect and enemies.  What more could you ask?

The probability of failure at each step accumulates multiplicatively.  Half the hash doesn't mean you are half as likely to succeed.  It means you are exponentially less likely to succeed.

In your math, maybe?
 


Yes, & the pope may wear a funny hat.



Gee, ya think?

Just fire up your ASIC farm, d00d! Totes wipe out the network, brah!

Last time I'm going to say it. If you expect real discussions open your own forum, period.

You expect to achieve a useful mathematical discussion in a troll thread?  It's pure drama here.  Seriously, get a grip.  You'd have so much less stress -- and probably improve your immune system health as a result -- if you didn't waste your energy on trolls anyhow.

BBR apparently thinks anonymity is not important because most txs don't use it?

my maths may be way off.  if maybe I'm missing some 0's somewhere in the h/s - kh/s - mh/s comparison?

I see 51% as being very attainable here based on the pool info.  Where am I messing up at?

The probability of a 51% attack with the numbers you have mooted is vanishing.  Effectively zero.  The probability of a time-warp is miniscule, but meaningful.  Less than 4% certainly.
BUT:
1) he probably has more resources than you think, and
2) a marginally successful attack does not suffice to damage the ledger if it is deftly mitigated in the event.

So I take it you know fuck all every mathematical relationship in the universe known and to be found.

And now we have 3 equations with 3 variables with one employing multiplication 'bxG' and another subtraction 'q_s - c_sx'. Let's think about how subtraction and multiplication interact in the simultaneous solution space and see if it doesn't narrow the solution space.

This was the kind of response I was waiting for from the developers. I guess rpietila takes on the role as the CEO which kind of makes sense.

Any input from MEW on this?  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=791366.0

Maybe he's just planning a 51% attack and the "fatal flaw" is just a distraction?  Knowing BCX has at least 500BTC to expend on this if he wants ... it seems greater than 4 - 8% to me.

That can only be true to the degree that q_s is non-random:  You can't tell where the probability mass has been shifted unless you know q_s.  If it is not observable, it is not informative.

My compliments on this, it's nice to see everyone working together afterall. It's the best thing to do for CN in general

Does it need to be solved fully, if the number of possible answers can be reduced enough so you can brute-force the answer?

MEW - Monero Economy Workgroup communication

A taskforce is set up to address the issue of a possible "BCX exploit", and an ultimatum by BCX to find and fix it in 72 hours lest a serious attack is launched upon Monero.

The taskforce consists of several Monero developers, AnonyMint, CZ, jl777 and me.

There are differing opinions in the taskforce concerning the severity of the threat. No coinkiller is yet found and several avenues are probed. The members who have technical competence are talking about their views themselves.

Regardless of the outcome in the technical side, this is a serious economic attack on Monero - about 15% of the pre-ultimatum value is lost, and there is a great information asymmetry plaguing traders currently. It is notable that nobody has offered to borrow XMR for shorting (which I could provide against full guarantee deposit of BTC). Neither has anyone bought the PUT options. This means that the downside speculation has so far been limited to selling out from a trader's own stash. An economically motivated player who knows for sure about a lethal attack might decide to take leverage for personal gain.

I believe that the Monero devs are up to their task and can mitigate the potential exploit, and fix the code in preparation of the announced attack. I further believe that Monero will rise even stronger. Since I am not in possession of any knowledge that indicates that a realistic attack could take place, I can only estimate the probability that it exists unnoticed, and my estimate is 4-8%.

The MEW will be inaugurated on Tuesday, and also the devteam has important announcements (not related to the attack). Provided that our coin still exists, I am sure we have a great future ahead of us as a community with these new methods of organizing our activities for the mutual benefit.

The amount of lies, manipulation, and trolling, is outstanding in this thread alone. On one corner you have the evil troll bigots like cryptomite, moneroman88, and their troll squad, on the other corner you have the monero/cryptonote supporters and devs, and in the middle you have anonymint/bcx.

Like when he said he was going to attack LTC and then didn't?

You can stop helping now, it's clear your hard work is no longer needed.

Wait what?
Nowadays you have to pay fee for using a mining software? Wow!

A single modular linear equation with two unknowns can't be solved. You can't argue or troll with that, it's maths.

So I take it you know fuck all about number theory.