Tony 🥩 ⚡ on Nostr: Sure, all you have to do is outbid, but if the size isn't correlated to the actual ...
Sure, all you have to do is outbid, but if the size isn't correlated to the actual financial transaction, all they would have to do is pick a price they're willing to pay to make it too expensive to outbid them.
Let's say the government is willing to devote a billion dollars to the problem of extinguishing bitcoin forever. What would they be able to drive the transaction fee up to make it unusable for the rest of us?
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