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<p>[QUOTE="InfleXion, post: 2970163, member: 29012"]Late reply, the length of some posts defends them well against being fully read. Here we go.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes I did. It was the part about Internet worms. You know things like WannaCry which happened after I posted about that sort of thing. It's a matter of taking over millions of devices and exceeding the the processing power of the existing userbase responsible for validating the blockchain, and then they can hijack the authentication process. That's what I mean by overwhelm. Overwhelming the integrity of the protocol. The point that is if the number of clients (miners, whoever is responsible) validating a false transaction exceed the number of those that would have invalidated it then you have counterfeit.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="InfleXion, post: 2970163, member: 29012"]Late reply, the length of some posts defends them well against being fully read. Here we go. Yes I did. It was the part about Internet worms. You know things like WannaCry which happened after I posted about that sort of thing. It's a matter of taking over millions of devices and exceeding the the processing power of the existing userbase responsible for validating the blockchain, and then they can hijack the authentication process. That's what I mean by overwhelm. Overwhelming the integrity of the protocol. The point that is if the number of clients (miners, whoever is responsible) validating a false transaction exceed the number of those that would have invalidated it then you have counterfeit.[/QUOTE]
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