Sabotaging Bitcoin

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Re: Sabotaging Bitcoin

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Post by candiddevmike » Tue, Dec 30, 2025, 11:44 PM UTC

gerdesj wrote: post #2

TIL: https://ccaf.io/cbnsi/cbeci - quite horrifying! EDIT: For comparison: https://gridwatch.co.uk/

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Re: Sabotaging Bitcoin

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Post by dboreham » Tue, Dec 30, 2025, 11:47 PM UTC

qgin wrote: post #6

will5421 wrote: post #3

Is it illegal to attack cryptocurrency?

If crypto needs legal protection from attacks, I think that would invalidate most of its value proposition.

Definitely reduces the cost of consensus though.

Re: Sabotaging Bitcoin

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Post by kfrzcode » Tue, Dec 30, 2025, 11:47 PM UTC

gerdesj wrote: post #2

TIL: https://ccaf.io/cbnsi/cbeci - quite horrifying! EDIT: For comparison: https://gridwatch.co.uk/

Meanwhile, Hedera remains carbon negative and 7 orders of magnitude more efficient than Bitcoin.

"Today, Hedera is performing the equivalent of over 10,000,000 transactions and 788,000 transactions for the same amount of energy it takes Bitcoin and Ethereum to process 1, respectively."

[0]: https://hedera.com/blog/going-carbon-negative-at-hedera-hash... [1]: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10160701/