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by jkeler 3649 days ago
> Because the probability drops exponentially with Ω, it's easy to pick an Ω such that the chance of observing a blockchain reorganization is less likely than having the processor miscompute values due to strikes by alpha particles. If that's not sufficient for pedants, one can pick a slightly higher Ω such that the chances of observing a reorganization are lower than the likelihood that all the oxygen molecules in the room, via random Brownian motion, will pile up into one corner of the room and leave one to suffocate in the other corner.

This guy obviously doesn't understand what he is talking about. I would more probably remine the whole bitcoin blockchain on my cpu in a second than this thing happens.