Expert: Bitcoin Faces $8B Attack Risk, Ethereum More Secure

A Duke University finance professor, Campbell Harvey, has said that a 51% attack on Bitcoin, long dismissed as a theoretical exercise that would only destroy value for whoever tried it, has quietly become something an attacker could profit from because of today’s derivatives markets. However, many BTC supporters dismissed the claim made during the July 12 episode of Scott Melker’s Wolf of All Streets podc…