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202 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 23 Oct \ parent \ on: "Quasi-consensus": help me understand this conversation with Chris Guida bitcoin
I was just thinking about the sheer probability. Just eclipsing someone three times in a row, with better than even odds, would require almost every node to be malicious.
Of course, but you're assuming that such an attack would just have one layer.
A sophisticated attack would play the probabilities by not focusing just on the application layer, but combining it with multiple other layers; in the most simplest form, say, a BGP attack that makes a significant portion of the internet unreachable for you.
It's super expensive and super low success rate against an active operator. Your highest risks are your lightning channel partners that you didn't vet, much higher than any node eclipse attack.
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