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BTG might collapse as a result.

This might help general awareness that minor coins without a differentiating technology are simply highly vulnerable uninteresting clones, not worth any attention and thus, value. Perhaps some would just disappear, in a spiral of lower value, lower hash rate, more vulnerability, till all miners leave towards other, stronger coins?

This might sanitize the whole cryptocurrency domain a little.

Or not?




It's been known for some time that anything out of the top 10 that uses a pow algorithm for which you can buy hashpower in the market is pretty easy to run a doublespend on. It doesn't seem to have had a huge effect on adoption of those coins though.




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