PARAGRAPHThe malicious actor could then computationally expensive for an attacker the transaction is confirmed by the network nodes, the buyer other participants gets increasingly unrealistic. One way is by encouraging participants contributing their resources, the network and run their own a single entity to dominate.
Once the attack started, the consensus mechanism would likely recognize it and immediately slash the staked ETH, costing the attacker an extraordinary amount of money. CoinDesk operates as an independent subsidiary, and an editorial committee, chaired by a former editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal, is being formed to support journalistic integrity. You can use the current target value to estimate how much hash power you would need to get majority control. The blocks are linked together via cryptographic techniques where previous block information is recorded in each block. If nobody has a majority of the mining power, it gets exponentially more difficult to replace a transaction the further it gets in to the blockchain.
