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it would highly incentivise a group of miners to do a 51% attack on the BCH blockchain in order to steal funds from exchanges even accepting a deposit with 2 confirmations can carry risk which is why we require 6.
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We shouldn't encourage anyone to steal. Frankly, I'm surprised BCH hasn't been 51% attacked yet.
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Is the profit incentive really strong enough to keep core extremists from turning their hashpower to BCH just long enough to destroy the chain and crash the price?
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It's unknown how much of the short term profit hashpower behind BTC is long term behind BCH. Trying to 51% BCH is dangerous not only for BCH, but for BTC too. It can easily backfire
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I doubt there is enough. If anything, there are BTC miners mining BCH to get more BTC that could be used as additional power against BCH in a 51% attack.