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by shoshino 2749 days ago
No they don't.
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> No they don't.

Can I ask how you came to that answer?

https://www.crypto51.app/ says a one-hour 51% attack on Bitcoin would cost only $237K as I type this, which doesn't seem like much for tech behemoths (much less nation-states).

He said compute, you responded with money.

You are not comparing the same things.

Specifically: Bitcoin is done on specialized ASICs, while the tech companies have general purpose CPUs.