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Re:Bitcoin Gold Hit by Double Spend Attack, Exchanges Lose M... by dragonwriter on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @08:44PM (#17139922)
Association with or interest in a different (crypto or not) currency, leading to wanting to shake faith in the target currency.

Hostility toward a community in which the target currency is particularly popular.

“Some men just want to watch the world burn.”

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Re:Bitcoin Gold Hit by Double Spend Attack, Exchanges Lose M... by TeMPOraL on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @11:34PM (#17140886)
Concern over the impact Bitcoin has on global energy use?
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Re:Bitcoin Gold Hit by Double Spend Attack, Exchanges Lose M... by actsasbuffoon on Thursday May 24, 2018 @08:03AM (#17143131)
If you had a strong interest in Ethereum (for example), then I think you’d want to avoid the wholesale destruction of Bitcoin. If the biggest crypto currency fails, it’ll probably send shockwaves through out the entire crypto currency market.

Mind you, I say this as a crypto currency outsider.

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Re:Bitcoin Gold Hit by Double Spend Attack, Exchanges Lose M... by dragonwriter on Thursday May 24, 2018 @10:49AM (#17144506)
> If you had a strong interest in Ethereum (for example), then I think you’d want to avoid the wholesale destruction of Bitcoin. If the biggest crypto currency fails, it’ll probably send shockwaves through out the entire crypto currency market.

That's true as long as cryptocurrency itself is seen as fringe; it's less true if cryptocurrency becomes generally accepted.

Of course, a nation-state or other actor interested in preserving the role of fiat and keeping cryptocurrency on the fringes is also a possibility.

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