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I normally post in Bitcoin beginners so I'm not trying to get above my station but...
I'll try and answer this llike swapmarket...
A serious attack on the network needs to dominate hashrate for months on end right?
They'll have to burn through billions of dollars in equipment and energy, while every man and their dog watches the mempool not confirming transactions as they did before
The price will crash, mining subsidy is dead in the water and as said before the equipment is useless and they're left holding it
An economic suicide mission
Bitcoin is the biggest goldfish bowl in the world, what other protocol or asset has this amount of visibility or scrutiny
Would we know if something was happening? I think so, yes
123 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 21h
The price will crash
I think this assumes big holders care enough, and big holders are ETFs, corporations, whales, and soon maybe even nation states themselves, and I don't think they would care enough if a 51% attack didn't even affect them.
For example, I have to admit that even in a 51% attack, I probably wouldn't sell my bitcoins. It's still better than fiat. At least someone would have to maintain 51% to censor transactions. Also, it would mean I would have to travel far to get them out of cold storage.
Will you go back to fiat just because a few morally questionable people were censored?
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @Taj 21h
Yes, I see now 👀 what you mean, alongside power law and laffer curve, what's the rule, law or phenomenon in which the very entities Bitcoin was designed to make redundant, end up stealing the plebs lunch money
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First off, there's no stations. If you have something to say about the topic you should definitely post it. Honestly, I really appreciated your comment because it reminded me of that conversation with SwapMarket (which I couldn't find). Please do post when you feel like it!
I agree that there is a lot of scrutiny on Bitcoin. But I wanted to try to think about how we create little buckets for ideas like 51% attack or censorship, but in reality things are often very fluid -- in this instance, I'm trying to make the case that 51% attack and soft fork aren't so different from each other as far as what actually happens on the chain. It's just one is done cooperatively and another perhaps isn't.
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One more observation: bitcoin blockchain is too transparent and flows are already censored at the KYC exit rails (with questionable accuracy). All the shady transfers can and do happen on Liquid and Lightning networks. Controlling the miners will yield the state very little.
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