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Re:Pentagon Planned for a Bitcoin Rebellion by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Friday June 12, 2020 @07:20PM (#23504918)
> because if you succeed, you ruin bitcoin and your equipment value becomes 0 with your attack.

This would be a feature not a bug if you are the government trying to undermine bitcoin.

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Re:Pentagon Planned for a Bitcoin Rebellion by andirk on Saturday June 13, 2020 @04:06PM (#23512265)
Both are true. If you took over BTC you'd be inclined to keep it in tact else it's worthless currency-wise. But an entity can theoretically take over bitcoin to make it worthless.
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