{"id":56381,"date":"2020-07-31T00:22:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T00:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2019.dash.org\/?p=56381"},"modified":"2021-09-18T11:41:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T11:41:42","slug":"raising-the-security-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dash.org\/news\/raising-the-security-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising the Security Bar? Dash Claims a 51% Attack Is Not Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dash recently\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StayDashy\/status\/1278683418738544641\">claimed<\/a>\u00a0it had been the world\u2019s safest cryptocurrency for a year due to its innovative technology called ChainLocks that allegedly makes a 51% attack nearly impossible. Fully implemented in early July 2019, ChainLocks has not yet seen any protocol capable of matching it \u2014 according to the Dash Core team.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well-known Bitcoin (<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/bitcoin-price-index\" data-amp=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph-com.cdn.ampproject.org\/c\/s\/cointelegraph.com\/bitcoin-price-index\/amp\">BTC<\/a>) educator\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/top-people-in-crypto-and-blockchain\/andreas-antonopoulos\">Andreas Antonopoulos<\/a>\u00a0recently\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ajoobz\/status\/1197077899750379520\">suggested<\/a>\u00a0that with the Bitcoin blockchain, a 10-minute 51% attack would cost around $1 billion \u2014 something that sounds unrealistic to achieve. 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