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by carbocation 4589 days ago
If the actual number is still doubling rapidly from a recent nadir, isn't the implication the same?

Also, for people who don't see this as natural (and I agree that it looks almost mechanical), is this a misguided "51%" attack? (Seems unlikely given that if you have the resources for that, you also probably understand how it works.) Just curious what people see this sudden change as representing.

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> Also, for people who don't see this as natural (and I agree that it looks almost mechanical), is this a misguided "51%" attack?

No. The whole point of the POW mechanism is to frustrate cheap easy Sybil attacks where someone sets up a few thousand IPs and dictates what the network says.