Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by icebraining 4590 days ago
You seem to be assuming that while USD has human protections, the only thing protecting BTC is the chain. But if someone were to actually destroy 10 trillion USD, there would be social consequences as well; it's not like people would just accept it quietly.

More importantly, what gains would the attacker get to compensate an expenditure of such big amounts of money?