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by hayksaakian 4601 days ago
The real question is: can then even do anything about a decentralized currency?
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China drove up the exchange rate 3x; what makes you think they couldn't drive it right back down?
The chinese govt has plenty of engineers and plenty of IC fabs. They are in the best position, even more so than the US govt, to execute the 51% attack.
Block it from the Great Firewall?