How likely is a 51% attack to actually happen in a mainstream cryptocurrency?

How likely is a 51% attack to actually happen in a mainstream cryptocurrency?

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Zero, now lets put this thread to some good use.

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How are trannies related to cryptos?

more likely than you think
all major cryptocurrencies have extremely concentrated mining pools largely controlled by only a handful of major players
in theory only 2-5 entities at most need to agree to get a controlling stake
despite decentralization being the core idea behind crypto in practice it isn't really

how about you 41% yourself and these shitty threads

because they will both eventually die out?

> The top 3 mining pools by hashrate are:
>FoundryUSA, at 40.66 exahashes per second (EH/s); 20.5% of the total Bitcoin network hashrate
>F2Pool, at 34.41 EH/s; 17.4% of the total Bitcoin network hashrate
>AntPool, at 29.72 EH/s; 15% of the total Bitcoin network hashrate

51% attack are unavoidable in life
> what happen if like 90% of the people of a country decide they don't want the government?
> what happen if 90% of people in the world decide they don't want to accept dollars as payment?
> what happen if the majority of people in a group don't want to go to a specific restaurant in a eg school reunion?

How likely it is to happen? imo not so much

the processing power to successfully pull this type of attack off is considerable. Quantum computing would render it trivial; but in both cases, the amount of capital required to either amass the tech required or develop the tech required and use it for this purpose would put the capabilities firmly out of reach of 99.999 percent of people. In the case where this individual or individual possessed said processing power, it would be a far more profitable use of their processing power to simply mine. This, of course, will no longer be the case when there are no more bitcoin; although I imagine there are already contingencies in place for when that day arrives to avoid this.

TLDR op is a faget

Plurality market condition might not be strictly possible, but it's very likely the entire network is now an oligopoly and will converge deeper into that situation, making a 51% market made real by a cabal between the big players a possibility. I'm strictly talking out of my ass because the internet, which is very close in design to crypto, followed/is following a similar trajectory and it's obnoxious to me how people don't see that happening.