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Old 12-12-2017, 10:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Eslade [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
Can't wait until someone gains 51% of the computers power doing the hashes, fucks up the hashes and crashes this stuff.
Even if it was possible, the window of time to do something really "bad" would be about 10-20 minutes... The world as a whole would quickly notice that something was amiss (probably LONG before anyone actually succeeded in this mythical level of hashing power) and the appropriate low-level network routing actions would be collectively taken to essentially cut off the offending party (probably a specific nation) like a tumor.

Theoretically probable; realistically impossible.
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