It's profitable to attack other coins like this. But bitcoin is too big for a 51% attack because it requires trillions of dollars in expenses including
- billions of dollars in ASIC, which BitMain and others cannot even produce enough of in a given calendar year
- billions of dollars in electricity costs at standard rates
Nobody has that kind of wealth except in non-liquid assets (stocks, real estate, trusts) and crypto.
it would only cost 43.2million in electricity to fill a whole days worth of empty blocks.