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Title: Could A Severe "Attack" On Bitcoin Possibly Be A Good Thing??? Post by: gigabytecoin on March 19, 2011, 10:01:41 AM "The people" generally do not like governments and/or other powerful entities interfering in free markets.
If anybody did attempt to gain more than 50% computing/node power of the network in order to sabotage it... (meaning it was a significant game changing idea). A headline like that could make the new york times. Title: Re: Could A Severe "Attack" On Bitcoin Possibly Be A Good Thing??? Post by: ryepdx on March 19, 2011, 11:01:28 AM Of course, if some organized trolling group decided to do it for shits and giggles in our infancy, we'd kinda' be out of luck.
Title: Re: Could A Severe "Attack" On Bitcoin Possibly Be A Good Thing??? Post by: gigabytecoin on March 19, 2011, 11:13:57 AM there is no such thing as bad publicity Exactly what I was thinking. It could be a great "call to action" for everybody to join forces with bitcoin and run their generator client 24/7. Title: Re: Could A Severe "Attack" On Bitcoin Possibly Be A Good Thing??? Post by: Mahkul on March 19, 2011, 11:22:14 AM I like this idea.
Title: Re: Could A Severe "Attack" On Bitcoin Possibly Be A Good Thing??? Post by: comboy on March 19, 2011, 11:47:49 AM related: http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3198.msg44882
I'd rather have secure bitcoins than a headline. Title: Re: Could A Severe "Attack" On Bitcoin Possibly Be A Good Thing??? Post by: no to the gold cult on March 19, 2011, 12:39:44 PM "The people" generally do not like governments and/or other powerful entities interfering in free markets. Wow. Are you seeing the world through Hayek-spectacles? :-\ Title: Re: Could A Severe "Attack" On Bitcoin Possibly Be A Good Thing??? Post by: Jered Kenna (TradeHill) on March 19, 2011, 04:24:20 PM related: http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3198.msg44882 I'd rather have secure bitcoins than a headline. I'm worried people (possibly myself) would think "if it happened once it can happen again, or worse" which is somewhat true. Calling something safe / uncrackable / unsinkable / whatever is always asking for trouble. With that being said I'd prefer btc to something that is just straight out manipulated like the USD :D |