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It failing. For any reason.

Bootstrapping a new proof-of-work currency, after the biggest one has failed, may simply be impossible. Small PoW currencies are very susceptible to 51% attacks. So if Bitcoin ever fails we may find that the bad actors of the world use force to prevent a replacement from ever having a chance.

We've probably got one shot at creating a decentralized currency for the world.

We've probably got one shot at creating a decentralized currency for the world.

What about a consensus protocol that requires both 51% of mining hardware as well as 51% of stake to attack the network and doesn’t rely on validators?

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We've probably got one shot at creating a decentralized currency for the world.

We have to pin this!

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"We've probably got one shot at creating a decentralized currency for the world."

We have to pin this, and necessarily together with this song:

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;)

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My biggest fear is that it fails because a misguided dev, obsessed with adding a tail emission to bitcoin, is somehow successful.

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I am almost dumbfounded to hear a dev say something like this haha. The biggest selling point for people is 21 million. That's the ENTIRE idea haha. Tail emissions.... WTF?

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