That's a pretty good question. I think creating division in the Bitcoin culture and convincing a bunch of plebs they are on a holy war makes the attack more likely to succeed... Not unlike some weird social engineering attack. Now Unless things drastically change it will fail miserably, but the more "support" they can gin up, the more disruptive the attack, which appears to be the purpose of all this. Ironically, this will probably make Bitcoin more resistant to this type of attack in the future. The haters are blowing their wad too soon. Anyways, thanks for the cheap sats and gfy. image

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But like how? Right now its not a state sponsored attack (probably) if this is a real weakness and all you need to do is control some relatively small amount of the hash to cause a major reorg how are you supposed to defend against it Fundamentally its just what people consider to be the right chain right?
It won't work but it if there were not the social engineering/ divide the movement aspect then the whole thing it would be much easier to defend against. And if you are the attacker and you can trick some miners(I'm sure some plebs running bit axe might run this) or the hostage tactics actually work on a non negligible amount of the miners then even better. Not state sponsored attack(probably)? I''m nott sure about that one