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Not too hard to get consensus if you're an authoritarian regime in china. All of the largest miners are in china. https://www.statista.com/statistics/731416/mar

• gruez 6y ago
  Segwit2x had the miners support, yet it still failed.
  • bostonsre 6y ago
    It sounded like they required support from the developer community but they didn't have it. Not sure if that support would be needed for a 51% attack, would it?
    • gruez 6y ago
      Depends on the attack you're pulling off. A 51% attack won't allow you to change the coin generation rate (what peteretep was talking about).
      • peteretep 6y ago
        Uncle Sam wakes up tomorrow and says: "Compliance measures on crypto-currency are expensive. We'll be charging a 3% compliance tax on all crypto-currency holdings, and we'll do this via any US-registered crypto-brokers charging a withholding tax unless you can prove it's double-taxation; also any failure to pay this is tax evasion and will be prosecuted as such" you'll see some hard forks. Also this is a _great_ idea as it increases tax revenue, increases investment in US bonds and stocks, _and_ it suddenly swells the value of US Govt gold reserves.