it's a pain buying $BSV in my jurisdiction, going to need you to branch this so I can fill my bags @4
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read Lovejoy on 51% attacks. BSV could reduce 51% attack risk by switching to a different algorithm than BTC. Counterattack is also a viable defense mechanism.
"all internal pseudorandomness is in the end locally predictable or recent and therefore susceptible to some form of attack"
ASIC resistance = purposeful inefficiency. ASICs are good, skin in game for miners.
Proof of Stake coins vulnerable to Nothing-at-Stake attacks: "without a provable deviation, we cannot 'punish' suspected deviant miners without the risk of punishing honest but poorly-connected miners". Brown-Cohen et al 2019 on vulnerabilities of PoS