All POW based networks assume that majority of the miners is not hostile. It is highly dangerous to have a single entity controlling 51%+ of the network.
Mind, attacks can be executed from as low as 25% of the total hashrate present on the network. BCH is vulnerable because it has on 1-3% of the global SHA256 hashpower, meaning...
I really don't know if this is a good idea. New hashing function implies new ASICs, and the network would be vulnerable to GPU attacks during the transition.
Or this change is planned, and then it leaves plenty of time to have governance issues and social attacks like: "Bitcoin without SHA-256 is not Bitcoin, blah blah blah"
Id say many are fearful,scared of change and the risks associated As for merge mining with an old fork,no One of the main reasons Myspace died, Scalability, btc will die eventually too
The stupidity runs so fucking deep, it's lucky I already lost all hope in humanity when BSCore successfully hijacked BTC using retarded narratives and censorship.
It takes a very long time in crypto to understand all the little details, many just dont have the time or desire to put in the effort to keep learning.
If J&R wanted to change the algo for long term safety, they would still have BCH and so would we....as long as devs and community are in general consensus.
I think merge mining won't float this boat and we should concentrate on breaking free rather than tying ourselves more to the BTC scheme. SHA256 voted already and their vote is BTC.
The same with the crippling 1MB limit, it is wise to solve these things before they become a problem. Changing the hash algo should be the #1 focus currently.
But the hash would probably fall extremely and so would the price. Also, after such fork the sha256 miner would continue to mine the old BCH. Nobody would follow the new fork.
Agree with all TLT :-) but if Algo change is done without BCH ABC and others, we risk splitting to a new name & ticker if algo change is done with consensus,rivals will mine old chain