Re: [Bitcoin-development] Merge mining

2014-01-04 Thread David Vorick
If you have the resources to attack one of the bigger altcoins, you probably have a significant investment in the cryptocurrency space, and a significant interest in protecting it. Compromising even something like dogecoin would cause a lot of questions to be raised and likely drop the value of

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Merge mining

2014-01-04 Thread Jorge Timón
On 1/4/14, David Vorick david.vor...@gmail.com wrote: If you have the resources to attack one of the bigger altcoins, you probably have a significant investment in the cryptocurrency space, and a significant interest in protecting it. Compromising even something like dogecoin would cause a lot

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Merge mining

2013-12-31 Thread rob . golding
But there's so much 'dry powder' out there (GPUs), I wonder if *not* supporting merge-mining is any better? At least the attacker has to do some unique PoW, so you hope it's costing them something. With lots of people having access to 100TH+ there's not really much 'cost' to doing a 51%