The requirement is that the good guys collectively have more CPU power than any single attacker.
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Bitaxe needs to be adopted, I need to add this as well.
Yep. Full context on page 35 of "Kicking the Hornet's Nest"
https://crrdlx.vercel.app/kicking/Kicking_the_Hornets_Nest-e3-20241005.pdf
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this is literally the advantage of CPU specific mining algorithms.
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The requirement starts to fail when the "good guys" believe they are the good guys and don't realize they are opening up this very attack vector.