> Why do you think the government would have to produce new ASICs, when they could just buy or seize the existing ones? There is not enough of them to buy on t

> Why do you think the government would have to produce new ASICs, when they could just buy or seize the existing ones? There is not enough of them to buy on the market to make 51% attack. Of course seizing is possible but hard because I imagine it would be quite hard to locate them, apart form large mining operations they are quite distributed. In case of bitcoin network it would have to be a large multicountry operation. Because the miners are really distributed around the world.