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Is this really true? So basically any government or any wealthy individual (or maybe even anyone with a botnet) could easily muster enough computing power to d

by Tycho 12y ago

Is this really true? So basically any government or any wealthy individual (or maybe even anyone with a botnet) could easily muster enough computing power to destroy Bitcoin? I thought by this point the amount of computing power required to do that was supposed to be ungodly...

alextingle 12y ago
Merely godly.
polemic 12y ago
Compare the sort of user hardware that a botnet will typically control, vs the hardware that specialist miners run, and you'll see why botnets don't have much chance of upsetting the network. You might earn a few coins, but you'll never take 51%: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison#Intel https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison#Intel