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In the first two hours of the 16th of 2018, people in the currency circle around the world "watched" the BCH hard fork battle together.
Some industry insiders once analyzed that whichever chain can dig out 6 blocks ahead of the other will win. But after parting ways for nearly 2 hours, the ABC chain is longer than the SV chain by 6 blocks. As of press time, the ABC chain has even slightly surpassed the SV chain (more than 16 blocks). But no one has declared victory or quit.
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During the 2 hours when you fell asleep, we saw the delay of BCH upgrade, the airborne computing power of Bitmain overtaking the "enemy camp", the rumors of "being attacked", the SV chain gradually losing power, and so on. Next, Odaily will join you in reviewing the scenes that are difficult to imagine in advance.
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Watching the game live, eating melons is also crazy
As Cindy, a fanatic in the BCH community, said, BCH has won anyway. This interesting Hash War has brought a lot of attention to BCH, and even affected BTC and even the entire currency market. This forked coin with the top five market capitalization has never received such a high degree of attention like this moment.
One or two days before the war, various blockchain browsers/data websites were hung with the countdown to the BCH fork. And some talented people will witness the first "battle of the gods" in the blockchain world with everyone through a multi-person live broadcast.
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The other is that BCH delayed the fork time due to the unfinished network upgrade, which was delayed by more than an hour from the original schedule of 00:40 on the 16th.
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The mining pools of ABC made a big move, and suddenly the airborne computing power surpassed CSW
Less than half an hour before the fork, as expected, Roger Ver and Bitmain finally called in its "Kwantung Army".
According to media reports, as of 1:20 on the 16th, Roger Ver’s mining pool (Bitcoin.com), its BCH computing power has increased by 1593.09% in the past 24 hours, reaching 4081.03 PH/S, surpassing the long-term leader Coingeek The mining pool (in the Satoshi Aoben camp) ranked first; at the same time, the BTC computing power of the Bitcoin.com mining pool dropped by 48.56% from the past 24 hours to 235.96PH/S.
What happened speaks for itself. Liu Changyong, director of the Blockchain Economic Research Center of Chongqing Technology and Business University (also an ABC supporter), said that the computing power cut by Bitcoin.com is equivalent to the sum of the computing power of the entire BCH network yesterday. Therefore, the ABC chain "dominates" in computing power.
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It can be seen that the sum of the computing power of the mining pools btc.com, antipool, and viabtc under Bitmain is 16.15 Eh/s (=16150 Ph/s), which is 3.4 times the computing power of the entire BCH. In theory, you can control BCH with just a little adjustment.
Of course, because the actual computing power of the mining pool does not belong to Bitmain, Bitmain has to pay a considerable price for this. It uses computing power to mine the BCH ABC chain with a certain risk of zeroing, and it pays out of its own pocket to give the miners the income they deserve when they mine BTC.
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Wu Jihan talks about "breaking up": I feel a great sense of getting rid of the devil
And Wu Jihan seemed unable to restrain his restlessness, he reposted Jiang Zhuoer's tweet announcing the fork,explain：
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There is quite a feeling of "getting out of the sea of suffering".
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The first production of the SV chain is difficult and cannot dig out blocks. What has it experienced?
I went to open CSW's twitter, but there was no update. But the comments under the latest tweet were full of booing.
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Comment section on CSW Twitter
Reflected in the data, the price of BCH SV on the P network is almost halved.
Of course, some domestic netizens are also looking for reasons from "themselves".
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Under a picture, he wrote: "Auburn Cong (Cong) still lost in chess. I didn't expect the Chinese to be so united (Jian) and (Zha) to team up to cheat."
The implication is that these mining pools have embezzled miners' computing power to participate in the war without authorization, and both sides are biased towards the ABC chain in their attitudes.
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True or false attack?
When the two sides were fighting head-on, some people in the industry also put forward some speculations about the "attack", mainly believing that the SV chain attacked the ABC chain.
1. Empty block attack
Digital currency commentator WhalePanda tweeted that before the BCH fork, the SV chain seemed to launch an empty block attack on the ABC chain.
The effect that the empty block attack can achieve is to only generate blocks, but refuse to pack transactions, thus making the transaction memory pool to be confirmed larger and the average transaction confirmation time longer.
If the SV chain really launches this attack, then its intention may be to delay the upgrade.
The basis for WhalePanda to say this is that the just-mined block No. 556757 is a 0 txs (transaction) block. Although there were transactions to be entered at the time, the block was not packaged. And the block was produced by an unknown mining pool, so it is somewhat suspicious.
Later, this speculation did not continue.
2.dust attack
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Jiang Zhuoer, the founder of Leibit Mining Pool, believed that the ABC chain was attacked by dust.Dust attack refers to
But this statement (so far) has few supporters in the market.
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Jiang Zhuoer imagined 4 endings of the computing power war, will it be one of them?
Now, some onlookers are already discussing how to choose the backward CSW.
Jiang Zhuoer once divided the results of the computing power war into two categories: BCH split and non-split.
In the event that the ABC chain survives and the SV chain dies (or vice versa), BCH does not split;
In the case where the ABC chain inherits BCH and the SV chain has been fighting guerrilla warfare for a long time (or vice versa), BCH splits into two chains;
Miners on the SV chain have not stopped losses and are still giving it a go after being at a disadvantage from the beginning; CSW also seems to be holding on.
"But I think guerrilla warfare will be more like CSW's style, haha." Said an onlooker who was going to catch up on sleep after drinking the iron supplement oral liquid.
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