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Re: Has the NSA already broken bitcoin?
by
justusranvier
on 23/04/2015, 23:40:22 UTC
But there are very few people, none in fact, who have even one percent of the computing power of the NSA.
citation needed

http://www.informationweek.com/architecture/nsa-building-$8965-million-supercomputing-center/d/d-id/1097313

One percent of $896.5 million is roughly $9 million.

They have much more than that.

Do you know any people with even $9 million computers loaded with code breaking software?

The point is that the person defending the NSA was offering a false gift, a Trojan horse. Is the NSA secretly trying to help the public learn math? No. That is zero percent of their motive, though a few people may learn a little math by trying to break btc.
If the NSA devoted all that equipment toward Bitcoin mining, what percent of the network hashrate would they acquire?