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Comment by singpolyma3

15 hours ago

What? That's not true. You don't need more than one CPU miner online for tx to go through. That's why there are difficulty adjustments.

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nytesky  15 hours ago

But as number of miners drop arent btc at risk of a 50% attack?

  • groundzeros2015  14 hours ago

    But if you have anywhere near the market power to do a 50% attack, you can make a lot of money mining.

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