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I'm not sure what you mean by fake transactions, but transactions are verified with public key cryptography, and a block with invalid transactions will be rejected out of hand by blockchain nodes.

There are two* major classes of attack which someone could do with the power to mint blocks at will (i.e. a 51% attack):

    - discriminatory filtering, where valid transactions are 
      never validated
    - double spends, where a transaction appears like it's 
      been validated for a time but is then rolled back and 
      becomes invalid
But no one can mint transactions without private keys.

* They can also monopolize the rewards of mining, but that's not nearly as bad as the other issues.



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