I haven't watched this yet. The person that shared it used it to conclude that we don't need to be concerned about the security budget in the absence of block subsidies or even fees. Intuitively that seems bonkers, but I suspect the idea is that an attacker isn't getting block subsidies or fees either so the profitability of attacks and defense are the same whether there's a security budget or not.
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92 sats \ 1 reply \ @elvismercury 15 Feb
Also have not watched, but my usual objection to this is that some notable attackers don't need to make a profit in btc terms. Fucking up people's faith in btc's viability (and resultant price drop) would be reward enough.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark 15 Feb
Yea I guess you could short it and make plenty of money...
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