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> The sole way a government can kill it -- any government -- is to invest >$2B into getting >51% hash power, then launching coordinated malicious doublespends for the purpose of shattering faith in bitcoin.

How much hashing power resides in China? I was under the impression that it's >50%.

It would cost the Chinese government a lot less than $2B to raid all those farms and take their equipment.



There is and considering how powerful the chinese government is, they could do it easily: https://medium.com/@homakov/how-to-destroy-bitcoin-with-51-p...


... or more likely, to just order them - but what could they do? Double spend? Transfer Satoshi's money to some new address?


Freeze any address they like. Freeze the entire network, preventing any transaction from going through, by mining empty blocks.


As far as I know is ~80% unless where I read it was spreading misinformation.




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