Steven Pine [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2015-09-20 📝 Original message:That's a simple fallacy, ...

📅 Original date posted:2015-09-20
📝 Original message:That's a simple fallacy, historically governments even hegemons, fail, in
fact it would be odd to assert that a government will not fail, therefore
ascribing godlike and limitless powers to a government is again the view of
either a shill or someone untutored in history.

On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 5:10 PM, NxtChg <nxtchg at hush.com> wrote:

>
> >Anyone who doesn't consider governments the proper threat model is either
> a shill or an idiot.
>
> You meant to say "threat". This is what threat model is:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threat_model
>
> Nobody here discounts governments as a threat.
>
> As to the "proper threat model", you can't construct one since your
> attacker is essentially unbounded.
>
> For example, any large government could easily obtain 51% of hash power
> and then only accept transactions from "certified services".
>
>


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