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Bitcoin security guarantee shattered by anonymous miner with 51% network power

Bitcoin security guarantee shattered by anonymous miner with 51% network power | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

For the first time in Bitcoin's five-year history, a single entity has repeatedly provided more than half of the total computational power required to mine new digital coins, in some cases for sustained periods of time. It's an event that, if it persists, signals the end of the crypto currency's decentralized structure.

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The World According to Bitcoin Protocol

The World According to Bitcoin Protocol | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

The first line of Satoshi Nakamoto’s white paper reads as follows: “A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.”  The goal is achieved quite simply by removing three frictions to the exchange of value among people.  

 

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