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Re:Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and eBay exit Facebook’s Libra ... by avhwl on Friday October 11, 2019 @06:07PM (#21228932)
>Bitcoin can be hampered but not outright killed, at least not over night. A death by a thousand cuts is the most likely solution but by no means guarantees Victory.

Ignoring policy attacks, and focusing on the purely technical:

A useful metric here is to compare the cost of executing a 51% attack on Bitcoin long enough to erode confidence in the software to the military budget of the top nation states.

Additionally, the broadly assumed consistency properties of Proof-of-Work cryptocurrencies fall apart in the face of a powerful network adversary who can cause arbitrary segmentation.

Re:Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and eBay exit Facebook’s Libra ... by celticninja on Saturday October 12, 2019 @05:31AM (#21231738)
Everyone seems to forget that whilst a 51% attack could easily be financed by a nation state, actually getting the hardware to perform it is the bottleneck.