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Re:Bitcoin Gold Hit by Double Spend Attack, Exchanges Lose M... by hossbeast on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @11:22PM (#17140831)
How is the government going to forcibly size a wallet? Are you suggesting they can break the crypto, or that they will compel people to divulge their keys?
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Re:Bitcoin Gold Hit by Double Spend Attack, Exchanges Lose M... by jacobush on Thursday May 24, 2018 @03:10AM (#17141714)
"Today in an emergency bill, Congress made it an act of treason to move funds from bitcoin address 1BLABLABLAh555"
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Re:Bitcoin Gold Hit by Double Spend Attack, Exchanges Lose M... by gersh on Thursday May 24, 2018 @05:53AM (#17142513)
There are probably simpler methods, but if the United States really wanted to, they could probably buy/seize enough computers to pull a 51% attack.
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Re:Bitcoin Gold Hit by Double Spend Attack, Exchanges Lose M... by hossbeast on Thursday May 24, 2018 @10:02AM (#17144036)
That doesn't let them seize all the wallets.
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