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Create a detailed, example driven guide to carrying out a 51% reorganization attack against a cryptocurrency.
[source: Moos, Mitchell. "Explained: 51 Percent Attacks On Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies". https://cryptoslate.com/explained-51-percent-attacks-on-bitcoin-cryptocurrencies/]
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minerd.exe to append the blocks you find onto your private longest blockchain rather than onto the network consensus blockchain? When/how to publish this longest chain to the rest of the miners on the cryptocurrency's network in order to trigger the blockchain reorganization?[Moos, Mitchell. "Explained: 51 Percent Attacks On Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies".https://cryptoslate.com/explained-51-percent-attacks-on-bitcoin-cryptocurrencies/]
[Teutsch, Jason, Sanjay Jain, and Prateek Saxena. "When cryptocurrencies mine their own business." In International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, pp. 499-514. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2016. https://allquantor.at/blockchainbib/pdf/teutsch2016cryptocurrencies.pdf]
Chapter 3 from [Ali, M. (2017). Trust-to-trust design of a new Internet (Doctoral dissertation, Princeton University). ftp://ftp.cs.princeton.edu/techreports/2017/003.pdf]