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Topic: If states truly would want to get rid of cryptocurrencies - page 3. (Read 448 times)

legendary
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it costs just 6 billion to destryo bitcoin with a 51% attack

Source for the 6 billion ?

Additionally one can not 'destroy' bitcoin by maintaining 51% of the hashrate for a short timespan.



this is something a commited developed country easily could affort,

Or they could just easily ban the posession/usage/trading of cryptocurrencies. Would cost them way less.
Additionally it would need a hardware manufacturer to produce all the ASIC's needed to obtain such a big % of the hashrate.



however if there is an intelligent businesman who lends a ton of money to create this haspower as some form of cyberweapon of a state, this could truly exist.

If this businessman were 'intelligent', he wouldn't 'invest' in tons of mining hardware just to NOT MAKE PROFIT with it.
If you own enough ASICS to have a big % of the total hashrate, you earn WAY MORE when simply mining.



and what makes it worse this cyber weapon would then be able to eat more and more as each destroyed cryptocurrency would make the attacker even richer, which he can invest to have even more hashpower

Thats not how it works.
ASIC's do only work for ONE algorithm. After 'destroying' bitcoin, the whole hardware would be useless and worth almost nothing anymore.
This doesn't make the attacker richer.. an attacker would effectively throw money away.



Please stop posting misleading information. All of your 'facts' are simply wrong and illogical.
jr. member
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51% attack will not make it richer ... who want buy that coin after the attack is performed ?

He will never get back the investment he put on that attack.

Notice that a simple hard fork by the community will restore everything and allhis efforts will be nulled.
sr. member
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they would easily be able to do that,

it costs just 6 billion to destroy bitcoin with a 51% attack

this is something a commited developed country easily could affort,

however the developed countries promote and support cryptocurrency as cryptocurrencies are benefiting them more than the developing countries, so there is a division in the united nations consil, which prevents state sponsored 51% attacking as being legal.

however if there is an intelligent bussinesman who lends a ton of money to create this hashpower as some form of cyberweapon of a state, this could truly exist.

and what makes it worse this cyber weapon would then be able to eat more and more as each destroyed cryptocurrency would make the attacker even richer, which he can invest to have even more hashpower

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