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Re:Bitcoin surpasses $50K as major companies jump into crypto by frankenst1 on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @06:40AM (#26165302)
The 51% attack you are thinking of applies only to transaction ordering and inclusion in blocks and does not apply to consensus rules (like the 21M limit). Anyone (one miner, 5%, 51%, 80%, ...) who decides to change these rules is free to do so and will split off in a new coin.

These splits have already happened multiple times (Bitcoin Gold, SV, ABC, Cash) and most claim to be "the real Bitcoin". They are all either dead or valued <1/100 of BTC.

Re:Bitcoin surpasses $50K as major companies jump into crypto by dogman144 on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @10:07AM (#26167092)
yup yup yup. we're back in the era where large, hand-wavy criticisms get sent up w/o any understanding of the previous proof of concepts btc has gone through that quite exactly address the claims. it's getting to a similar point as if "the internet, won't work, too slow" criticisms were just thrown around and given credence after ebay was in operations for a few years.