Comments by "p11" (@porky1118) on "The Biggest Attack That Could Ruin Crypto Currencies (and how to prevent it)" video.

  1. Maybe that feels common, when you are from a country, where they call "50 Dollars" $50. At least it's common in Germany to put the currency after the count (50$, 50€, 50¥, etc.). And when talking about common units (feet, meters, liters) almost everyone would probably put the unit afterwards. Besides that, it's just the way you speak. It's the same order. You don't say "Percentage 50" as you don't say "Dollar 50". The fact, that it reminds you of declaring a variable would rather be an argument against using this notation. I would just put the unit after the number, no matter what the unit is, for consistency reasons.
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  2. I hate the name "51%-Attack". It does not need to be exactly 51%. It just needs to be more than 50%. But the more you have, the more likely the attack is to succeed. The attack could theoretically even succeed with not even 50%, but you'd have to get lucky and probably won't be able to sustain it for long enough to cause any damage. I'd just call it "50%-Attack" or "50%+-Attack" or "50+%-Attack" or maybe something totally different like "Majority-Attack".
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