I meant 5,001 of that 10,000. Just how many altruistic nerds do you think are hashing this stuff? If it’s as small a number as 10,000, then it’s easily subverted by a gov org that has an unlimited secret budget. You’re speaking as if you think it’s unthinkable that a gov org would purchase and operate enough hashrate to make billions by manipulating financial markets in this single case because you want it to be that way. For I dunno what reason, maybe you think that tech is ultimately altruistic or something?
Yet we have ample evidence of those gov orgs doing way worse, way more evil (and more expensive & more complicated) shit to make a buck: drug imports from Afghanistan, China, Colombia; secret web/software companies that spy upon users; embedded staff within all MSM to manipulate public opinion; WMD in Iraq; giving almost all of Iraq’s oil to Chink companies; invading Libya to prevent a rival gold-backed currency from being formed; invaded Syria to control oil exports from region; scuppers every attempt by GEOTUS to actually end those wars etc etc. But somehow, in this unique case, you believe firmly that those same gov orgs cannot buy a few thousand computers? You’re dumb man.
SPEZZ; honestly, if you think 3-4 billion is not a price they’d pay to secretly control the great hope for the future of financial freedom, then you really are dumb. Bezos & Bill Gates are literally their slaves, and between them control like 300 billion dollars alone. Even economically speaking, your argument is pure hopium. 1.39 GW of power too, that might sound like an astronomical amount to a normie tech enthusiast. But it’s merely a moderately sized windfarm. Let alone a small nuclear facility or coal plant (guess who has access to decommissioned US Navy ship-borne nuclear power plants?)
I meant 5,001 of that 10,000. Just how many altruistic nerds do you think are hashing this stuff? If it’s as small a number as 10,000, then it’s easily subverted by a gov org that has an unlimited secret budget. You’re speaking as if you think it’s unthinkable that a gov org would purchase and operate enough hashrate to make billions by manipulating financial markets in this single case because you want it to be that way. For I dunno what reason, maybe you think that tech is ultimately altruistic or something?
Yet we have ample evidence of those gov orgs doing way worse, way more evil (and more expensive & more complicated) shit to make a buck: drug imports from Afghanistan, China, Colombia; secret web/software companies that spy upon users; embedded staff within all MSM to manipulate public opinion; WMD in Iraq; giving almost all of Iraq’s oil to Chink companies; invading Libya to prevent a rival gold-backed currency from being formed; invaded Syria to control oil exports from region; scuppers every attempt by GEOTUS to actually end those wars etc etc. But somehow, in this unique case, you believe firmly that those same gov orgs cannot buy a few thousand computers? You’re dumb man.