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What kind of incentive does the attacker have to just harm a community of a distributed system?
by h1d 8y ago
What kind of incentive does the attacker have to just harm a community of a distributed system?
- rspeer 8y agoHow about environmentalism?
- mlvljr 8y agoNot this again!!
- jungturk 8y agoAn interest in a competing financial system.
- root_axis 8y agoPure carnage? Blackhats are real.
- dragonwriter 8y agoAssociation with or interest in a different (crypto or not) currency, leading to wanting to shake faith in the target currency. Hostility toward a community in which the target currency is particularly popular. “Some men just want to watch the world burn.”
- TeMPOraL 8y agoConcern over the impact Bitcoin has on global energy use?
- actsasbuffoon 8y agoIf you had a strong interest in Ethereum (for example), then I think you’d want to avoid the wholesale destruction of Bitcoin. If the biggest crypto currency fails, it’ll probably send shockwaves through out the entire crypto currency market. Mind you, I say this as a crypto currency outsider.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> If you had a strong interest in Ethereum (for example), then I think you’d want to avoid the wholesale destruction of Bitcoin. If the biggest crypto currency fails, it’ll probably send shockwaves through out the entire crypto currency market. That's true as long as cryptocurrency itself is seen as fringe; it's less true if cryptocurrency becomes generally accepted. Of course, a nation-state or other actor interested in preserving the role of fiat and keeping cryptocurrency on the fringes is also a possibility.
- asimpletune 8y agoJust to say they did it.
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- lugg 8y agoMoney? Tax is a pretty good motivator for governments.
- grigjd3 8y agoTrolling, because the internetz.
- sudomake 8y agoMaking GPU prices great again