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Blockstream/Core supporters seem to be encouraging DDOS attacks on Classic Nodes
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Aaaawwwe, are you inconsolably despondent over the fact _Classic is not and never will be antifragile like Bitcoin?
DDOS Attacks! FUD! Lying! Threatening! Intimidation! ![Cry](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cry.gif)
*nipple rubbing intensifies*
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Isn't it reeeeeally not faaaaaair that nobody can DDOS Bitcoin, but _Classic is going to be nuked with state-backed (La Serenissima) agency levels of IP fury?
How terrrrrrible that anyone stupid enough to attack Bitcoin and risk $5 billion of other people's money in catastrophic consensus failure will be obliterated. UDP is permissionless? Aaaaawwwee, tough luck little fellah.
Coinbase is built to withstand 100Gb/s DDOS? That's cute. MP is probably building a Starkiller Base capable of hitting all attacking nodes, Coinbase, and the rest of the Blockchain Alliance with 500Gb/s for weeks.
When Coinbase's ISP/CDN/COLO get turned into smoking, glowing craters and Brian is told to find other providers to paint a giant target on, that's going to entail a lot of downtime.
If you understand Bitcoin at all, you understand it necessarily confers all possible advantages to its defenders, and all possible disadvantages to attackers. EG:
How many dollars and customers does Coinbase lose every minute it's down? How much reputation and potential business does it lose with every "
Coinbase blasted off the internet!" story in the press and electronic media?
I don't know, but I'm sure it's much more than Coinbase's investors want to lose in a futile, aggressive
war of choice.