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Re:Bitcoin’s Price Was Artificially Inflated Last Year, Rese... by SilasX on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @01:10PM (#17305032)
Doesn't mean it's easy to get approval to spend that "smidge" on an attack.
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Re:Bitcoin’s Price Was Artificially Inflated Last Year, Rese... by ethbro on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @01:21PM (#17305148)
"smidge over 1%"

It's not easy, but it's not impossible (to parent's bombastic assertion).

I believe the Manhattan project spent something like 0.55% of the US military budget (against ~2013USD$900b yearly budgets, which seemed the peak in 1942-45).

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/smidge

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Re:Bitcoin’s Price Was Artificially Inflated Last Year, Rese... by SilasX on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @01:25PM (#17305189)
Because it had hard-won political approval; a bitcoin attack would face similar barriers.

And I know what smidge means, I was expressing ire at your attempt to sound folksy.

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Re:Bitcoin’s Price Was Artificially Inflated Last Year, Rese... by ethbro on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @03:05PM (#17306055)
Fwiw, I'm actually pretty folksy.
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