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qginyesterday at 11:38 PM2 repliesview on HN

If crypto needs legal protection from attacks, I think that would invalidate most of its value proposition.


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Lerctoday at 12:03 PM

That seems to be a reasonable position. I'm kind-of comfortable with the position of bitcoin as being large enough to attract significant attacks, but not so dominant that a catestrophic failure of the system would have significant global impact.

I have nothing against bitcoin being the money of the future, but if it is to become that, this is the sort of trial by fire that it should endure.

dborehamyesterday at 11:47 PM

Definitely reduces the cost of consensus though.