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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 2197 days ago
>The only thing preventing this from already happening today is that it would cost an insane amount of money to be able to mine blocks faster than everyone else in the system combined

The US Military budget is insanely large. The total value of Bitcoin is estimated at around $160 Billion[0]. The annual military budget is 750 Billion dollars. If there is the will, being the money would not be the issue preventing such an attack.

0. https://www.investopedia.com/tech/how-much-worlds-money-bitc...
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root_axis 2197 days ago
The military also has access to extreme computing resources that are not available to the general public. If the pentagon cared to develop their own ASICs they could easily dominate the network.
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NathanKP 2197 days ago
Not going to lie I don't think the military or the pentagon is that sophisticated to build their own ASICs. They'd just buy ASICs from one of the Chinese miners that has already perfected the game. The primary resource at the US disposal is ridiculous sums of cash, but we aren't exactly on top when it comes to expertise and manufacturing.
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