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it can be hacked or compromised. at which point it becomes imaginary
by zerostar07 9y ago
it can be hacked or compromised. at which point it becomes imaginary
- tomcooks 9y agoHow exactly would you hack or compromise bitcoin?
- arkona 9y agoFind pre-image of a sha-256 hash
- 0wing 9y agoWhile the cryptography might be resilient [1], in the real world people have been getting their bitcoins hacked and stolen very very commonly. The ecosystem has some serious issues to solve for it to be ready for an everyday user. [1] https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/about https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/about
- zerostar07 9y agoif i knew how, you would know it by now. but you can't prove it's unhackable either
- mcintyre1994 9y agoOwning >51% of the mining power for a sustained period would make it impossible to trust and presumably eventually wipe it out. The hashing power is frequently compared to small states, so a large state could presumably put together enough hashing power to sustain such an attack.