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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Nonsense about increasing the 21M supply cap
by
graphite
on 10/01/2025, 23:24:53 UTC
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.