Bitcoin : How much would it cost for a miner to exploit the Denial-of-Service bug that was fixed in 0.16.3?
From my understanding, the miner would have to independently mine a full block using their own mining software that would not accept the mining reward and that very block must contain 2 transactions using the same input.
The total cost would be something like:
* Electricity and mining equipment with enough hashpower to give them a chance of independently mining a full block.
* 12.5 XBT of unredeemed mining reward
* The cost of sending multiple transactions with the same input, these would probably have high fees in order to increase likelihood of them ending up in the same block.
The cost of this would be tremendous. My guess would be way over $10M!
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