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After i read this:
Honest generators only build onto a block (by referencing it in blocks they create) if it is the latest block in the longest valid chain. "Length" is calculated as total combined difficulty of that chain, not number of blocks, though this distinction is only important in the context of a few potential attacks. A chain is valid if all of the blocks and transactions within it are valid, and only if it starts with the genesis block. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Block_chain
Would it be possible to mine a block after the genisis block, which has a higher difficulty then all blocks in the mainchain together and override the blockchain with my own one? --- just hypothetical, i know that such a difficulty is ismost impossible to reach... but with some luck?
You can't start your side chain right after the genesis block, because of checkpoints. You could try to start it right after the latest checkpoint. One thing I'm not sure about is whether "difficulty" is computed from the block's actual hash value, or from the target it was supposed to meet. If the latter then you wouldn't get "extra credit" for your super-hard block, and then this wouldn't work.
– Nate Eldredge – 2017-12-22T20:02:51.067Of course, mining this one block would require an equivalent amount of work to re-mining all the blocks of the original chain. – Nate Eldredge – 2017-12-22T20:03:23.767