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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Real-time 51% Attack Vulnerability & Ranking Against Military Spending
by
LiteCoinGuy
on 31/08/2013, 12:30:18 UTC
How do you get $300 million?  Even at $100 per GH/s, you could buy the whole network for $50 Million.  This is a drop in the bucket for any government.  If they pull it off, no more transactions are processed, everyone stops mining and the incentive to mine drops to zero.  

The only meaningful value is how much the government needs to spend to destroy the network.  Right now, that's no more than $50 million and that's being very generous.

What am I missing?

some days ago it was 300 mio, now it is 770 mio. is this just because the difficulty rises?