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by Wassimo 1883 days ago
There are so many gamer's out there that I am wondering why they haven't united to take down Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies with their powerful gaming PC's.

They are pissed off about GPU prices being high and all the crime and the environmental impact Bitcoin causes they can get together to undermine the network. If gamers started a mining pool not for profit but to take down the network I can see it happening. First start mining with smaller cryptocurrencies, the money goes to encrypted wallets that no one controls then start posting fake transactions with that money to clog up the network.

As publicity gets more people to join the project, they can then start performing 51% attacks to further undermine the network. At some point that crypto will be worthless and they can move on to a bigger one then just repeat until they get up to bitcoin. But as the mainstream media picks up the story I don't think they would even need to get to Bitcoin as everything will collapses.

Conclusion: Better Environment, Less Financial Fraud, LOWER GPU prices. Someone start the project and call it "Gamers VS Crypto" or something like that.

1 comments

GPU mining is no longer profitable and is being used a scapegoat for a shortage of GPU chips.
I think in a large mining pool this is still a possibility to attack the network with 20 Series Nvidia and Above / Equivalent Video Cards. Especially if gamers get together to attack the network, the pool can grow into the millions of users.