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		wmf on June 13, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It's Time For a Hard Bitcoin Fork You'd see that every single block was mined by the same pool.

tinkerrr on June 13, 2014 [–]

That doesn't mean a 51% attack happened, it just means someone got 51% of the network hash rate.

wmf on June 13, 2014 | [–]

An honest miner with 51% of the hash rate would only mine 51% of the blocks (example: https://blockchain.info/blocks ); an attacker would mine every single block.

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