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by marcosdumay 2950 days ago
My guess is that the lack of liquidity is protecting the coins from the attack. You can't get much money out of most markets on 1 hour.

What is quite ironical, because if any of them just become a useful currency, that means it would get instantly attacked and worthless.

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As there usefulness increases so does their price and subsequently hashpower and volume, making 51% attacks harder to perform.
If you look at the table, it's shorting even Bitcoin and then attack it.