also, 51% is the extreme case. you can still break a chain with as small as 20% in terms of changing the record.

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just to be clear, that does depend on an unstable hashpower level. it IS 51% at the moment of such attacks. bitcoin's checkpoints have not been updated since 2021. if miners started defecting to a better chain with the same hash function bitcoin could be in trouble (spamchain, that is).