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by kenniskrag 1425 days ago
small PoW networks are prone to takeovers. E.g. one actor decidea to use his asics to take over the network for a few blocks.
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This is a solved issue with Merge mining. Here a primer: https://blog.bitmex.com/the-growth-of-bitcoin-merge-mining/
then someone has to mine two blocks?

How are they linked together. E.g. I haven't much luck to mine a bitcoin block and will others put data inside the bitcoin blockchain for me? If it is the other way around there should be some kind of auth?