Ahmed Bedair on Nostr: yes. nation states can spin up that much by buying all new and second hand hardware, ...
yes.
nation states can spin up that much by buying all new and second hand hardware, it might be be "profitable" but if the goal is to disrupt bitcoin they would be successful.
but I think what is being referred to is even easier than that. 2 pools already control ≈ 51% of the hashrate and they could easily collude and do some shady shit
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