Maybe. It's the first time I did the math on this (and nobody pointed out any mistakes). I don't have 0.66386 Sieu Ca Com worth of hashing power to waste on this, so I'll skip this one Most definitely! I can imagine someone with enough hashing power to start from genesis, ignore testnet block 1, and create a new chain from there. Create many blockstorms along the way, run through 32 halvings, end up with the chain with most work, 6,720,000 blocks and 0 block reward remaining. At that point you'll connect to the internet and all testnet nodes will switch to your chain with most work and empty blocks. You'll own almost 21 million testnet coins and have successfully taken over. Even better if you broadcast this on April 1st! Let's call it a $100,000 joke Similarly, by not creating blockstorms and just backdating blocks to increase the difficulty as much as possible, you could probably end up with a most-work-chain that hasn't even seen it's first halving yet. Note: I haven't done the math on this yet. I think you missed the hypothetical part of this
Maybe. It's the first time I did the math on this (and nobody pointed out any mistakes). I don't have 0.66386 Sieu Ca Com worth of hashing power to waste on this, so I'll skip this one Most definitely! I can imagine someone with enough hashing power to start from genesis, ignore testnet block 1, and create a new chain from there. Create many blockstorms along the way, run through 32 halvings, end up with the chain with most work, 6,720,000 blocks and 0 block reward remaining. At that point you'll connect to the internet and all testnet nodes will switch to your chain with most work and empty blocks. You'll own almost 21 million testnet coins and have successfully taken over. Even better if you broadcast this on April 1st! Let's call it a $100,000 joke Similarly, by not creating blockstorms and just backdating blocks to increase the difficulty as much as possible, you could probably end up with a most-work-chain that hasn't even seen it's first halving yet. Note: I haven't done the math on this yet. I think you missed the hypothetical part of this

Maybe. It's the first time I did the math on this (and nobody pointed out any mistakes). I don't have 0.66386 Sieu Ca Com worth of hashing power to waste on this, so I'll skip this one Most definitely! I can imagine someone with enough hashing power to start from genesis, ignore testnet block 1, and create a new chain from there. Create many blockstorms along the way, run through 32 halvings, end up with the chain with most work, 6,720,000 blocks and 0 block reward remaining. At that point you'll connect to the internet and all testnet nodes will switch to your chain with most work and empty blocks. You'll own almost 21 million testnet coins and have successfully taken over. Even better if you broadcast this on April 1st! Let's call it a $100,000 joke Similarly, by not creating blockstorms and just backdating blocks to increase the difficulty as much as possible, you could probably end up with a most-work-chain that hasn't even seen it's first halving yet. Note: I haven't done the math on this yet. I think you missed the hypothetical part of this

Maybe. It's the first time I did the math on this (and nobody pointed out any mistakes). I don't have 0.66386 Sieu Ca Com worth of hashing power to waste on this, so I'll skip this one Most definitely! I can imagine someone with enough hashing power to start from genesis, ignore testnet block 1, and create a new chain from there. Create many blockstorms along the way, run through 32 halvings, end up with the chain with most work, 6,720,000 blocks and 0 block reward remaining. At that point you'll connect to the internet and all testnet nodes will switch to your chain with most work and empty blocks. You'll own almost 21 million testnet coins and have successfully taken over. Even better if you broadcast this on April 1st! Let's call it a $100,000 joke Similarly, by not creating blockstorms and just backdating blocks to increase the difficulty as much as possible, you could probably end up with a most-work-chain that hasn't even seen it's first halving yet. Note: I haven't done the math on this yet. I think you missed the hypothetical part of this