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Re:Bitcoin's Use in Commerce Keeps Falling by jobserunder on Monday August 27, 2018 @04:36AM (#17850202)
Selfish mining with less than 50% does not exist. False

Also.... see how they confiscated gold in the USA.

You cannot confiscate bitcoin, anymore than you can confiscate "internet"

Both are networking protocols

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Re:Bitcoin's Use in Commerce Keeps Falling by davidgerard on Monday August 27, 2018 @08:38AM (#17851054)
> Selfish mining with less than 50% does not exist. False

Incorrect, and this has been well known for nearly five years: http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/11/04/bitcoin-is-broken/

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Re:Bitcoin's Use in Commerce Keeps Falling by jobserunder on Monday August 27, 2018 @06:17PM (#17855029)
Yes, Emin has been pushing that narrative for a while.

But we have not seen an instance of this yet

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