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Re:The problem with Bitcoin miners by louloulou on Sunday May 15, 2022 @05:22PM (#31391271)
If you can maintain it, sure.

But you can only double spend coins you already control, so at this point you would control 51% of global SHA2 hash and have a bunch of bitcoin that you would be double spending?

Who would accept that as payment? What incentive would you have to do something like that since you would be taking a massive loss?

Maybe as a government attack?

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Re:The problem with Bitcoin miners by Retric on Sunday May 15, 2022 @05:28PM (#31391327)
The assumption was the point of the attack would be to destroy Bitcoin’s value to make money from a short position not to sell the same coins twice.
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