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by TomatoCo 77 days ago
Wouldn't that be the play, though? Get a buttload of bitcoin, turn it into real money, then destroy bitcoin. If you found a break in bitcoin you wouldn't rely on keeping your wealth in bitcoin and then hoping nobody else discovers it.
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The trick would be to find some financial instrument that lets you short BTC, or make prediction-market bets on a falling price.