I didn't realize Exxon was mining now.
Given the disparity in capitalization, they simply could buy up all available BTC and not even dent their annual bonuses in the process. A couple of years on, BTC would be toast.
Do you have some numbers about the hashpower the nsa has or you're just posting to let others you have heard a few conspiracy theories ?
An IBM Blue Genie/Q can clock 20 peta-FLOPS and consumes 6 MW of power. The new NSA Datacenter in Utah, one of many such around the world, draws 65 MW of power from the grid.
Do the math.
Current network hashrate is equivalent of 1189529.29 Petaflops.
That's 60 000 of your Blue Genie computers.
You do the math newbie
