Nowadays Internet routing attacks remain practically effective as existing countermeasures either fail to provide protection guarantees or are not easily deployable. Blockchain systems are particularly vulnerable to such attacks as they rely on Internet-wide communications to reach consensus. In particular, Bitcoin-the most widely-used cryptocurrency-can be split in half by any AS-level adversary using BGP hijacking.
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Apostolaki et al. (2019) studied this question.