The 51 percent attack Bitcoin Gold experienced last week sparked an industry-wide debate about the security of the network. Many saw this as proof of BTG’s redundancy, but few focused on the problems in proof-of-work itself that enable these kinds of attacks to happen in the first place. Proof-of-work is less secure than we think […]The post Bitcoin Gold 51% attack highlights the weaknesses of proof-of-work appeared first on CryptoSlate.
