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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index by arcticbull on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @11:50PM (#26098362)
Economic incentives sure, but if it becomes America's currency and it's mined by the Chinese, economic incentives no longer have primacy.
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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index by shawnz on Thursday February 11, 2021 @12:10AM (#26098453)
Don't they? Then what does? I just don't see what the benefit of conducting such an attack would be.

Coinholders would practically not be impacted: they could just take their existing keys and bring them into the hard-forked software and continue like normal. Mining might be disrupted for a short time, but is that so harmful to the enemy to be worth spending millions in electricity?

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