.@Truthcoin drops a stunner on Bitcoin's long term security budget. Outstanding as usual
http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/security-budget/ …
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Replying to @nic__carter @Truthcoin
Lots of dubious assumptions: * Tx fees have historically risen and fallen with price, but they assume they are disconnected * L1 is a payment rail (nope, it's a settlement layer, and no altcoins are generally not as reliable and secure a substitute)
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More bad assumptions: * Centralized services make it easy to switch to altcoins (no, mental tx costs + trust risks) * They seem to be implicitly making the dumbest assumption of all in these debates, that lower hashrate in the long run is less secure. Wrong.
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Lower hash rate isn’t less secure? Huh?
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Was the hashrate 1/1,000th less secure a few years ago when the hashrate was only 1,000th that of today? No, the hashrate contributed about as much to security then as it does now.
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Replying to @NickSzabo4 @AriDavidPaul and
Isn’t the issue the hashrate as a % of global hashrate available for crypto mining? PoW altcoins that have 1/1,000th of BTC’s hashrate today are not secure partly because of high 51% threat
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Sure, but that's a very different argument than Sztorc and others I've seen worried about uture hashrate have been making. You have to assume there's some other chain using Bitcoin PoW that people are more attracted to despite having to pay a higher seignorage to hold it.
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Replying to @NickSzabo4 @AriDavidPaul and
@NickSzabo4, i guess ur point falls as an irrefutable one given that you’ve blocked the one best able to respond or clarify your misunderstanding,@Truthcoin. That’s a good wayto keep unhygienic opinions fm entering your realm
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