Just a crazy though
Let's imagine that Scrypt.cc is not a scam and it is just as admin says. Could it be that the big LTC price raise recently is due to scryptcc mining and holding the LTC mined (instead of selling for BTC as it used to do before the hack)?
I know, I know many of you are very smart and say it is a scam. But just imagine it was not. Would that be a explanation of LTC price raise?
Just want to know your opinion, I am a newbie to all this.
In that case, the 850 GHS would be about 75% of the Litecoin hashrate (
https://bitcoinwisdom.com/litecoin/difficulty currently at 1.22 THS) and then the price of LTC would crash anyways because one entity could double spend and fork the network at will and make LTC useless as a currency.
You can check out distribution of hashrate by mining pools here
https://www.litecoinpool.org/poolsChecked that over two weeks ago ... but I said "let's imagine is not a scam"-
I do not understand that of "double spend and fork" (as I said, I am a newbie) but I get to understand that would be a try to destroy the coin. So it does not suppose good intentions on that person, plus it would be stupid if he is the one interested in that the coin keeps or raises its value.
Let me clarify: Let's imagine ALL that Marcelo says is true and attribute to him the best intentions. Lets say he is mining other coins in addition to litecoin, lets say he is not a scammer but a legit person, and he is using 60% of the alleged 850 ghs hashpower to mine right now (as there are still rewards for the users, not all rewards has been taken away). For the sake of this "imagination", let's say he is mining LTC with only 400 GHS and holding them either fully or partially.
Could it be (in this very hipotetic fantasy scenario) that was the reason for the price raise?
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I did see the "lets imagine for a moment it's not a scam" but could not find anything in which could counter it.
About "double spend and fork", if you have control over more hashrate than the rest of the network you will always be mining the majority of the Blocks in which case you can send a transaction to exchanges and then mine your own chain and reverse that transaction and the network will accept it because your hashrate is more than the rest of the network and will continue to be more because you outmine everyone else.
Let's say for the last month Scamelo was mining with 400 GHS, that would be 33% of all Blocks on the Litecoin network over the last 30 days, LiteCoin reward is 50 Coins per Block at 2.5 minute intervals which would mean he would have mined approximately 285,000 LiteCoin in the last 30 days and with an approximate value currently of $7 per Coin, that would equate to $2 million USD worth of LTC, or approximately 7500 BTC.
The mention before was also that it was 500 GHS mining with 350 GHS in reserve not mining, if mining with 500 GHS it would be approximately 2.5 million USD, with 850 GHS it would be 4.25 mil USD but then we come into the same question about 51% attacks.
That 400, 500 or even 850 GHS could not be hidden on the network, their mining operation would be so massive they would need their own hydro-electric dam and a facility the size of a city block. It's supposedly in Brazil which in case would require a lot of extra cooling so it isn't melting the miners, the extra cooling alone would make the mining un-competitive even if you negate the fact that Brazil has a base energy cost 2-3 times higher than developed countries like US, Canada and most every European country.