Stealth Code Scenario :- 90% possible

Just gain access to public figures accounts , temporarily detain them and release an emergency update that fixes some flaw.

Here is why it is possible

1) The US has access to 80% of all servers public and private

2) when the need has arisen.....Have they not somehow out of the blue managed to capture anyone they want ? Be it in a day or ten years? This is a government , they make the rules.

3) with over 20 heavily funded and massively staffed security agencies including 3 military and non military ones whose single purpose in life is net dominance, you think compromising the accounts of 8 people or replacing a number of people who go by pseudonyms on the net is a difficult task?

The only reason we have not yet seen any real devastating attacks physical or otherwise is because they thus far are intrigued by the concept and do not perceive any serious threat from it.

While they may not be able to completely demolish the idea and the network, just taking the above measures or simply applying Russia like legislation will result in a collapse of the bitcoin price down to single didgits.

Do not kid yourselves that BTC is out of reach , a lot of nonsense about how it will function against governments has been spouted here by people who are either ignorant or arrogant. The honest truth is that we rely on the good graces of governments that allow us to have such freedoms else this idea would die.

Keeping those facts in mind note that only 1% or less of BTC users actually give a crap about the idea or technology, most just joined when they realised it could be profitable, if and when that ceases to be true,....u know it yourselves what they will do.

I am advocating that moving onwards the community be honest about our position in the world, that is the first step to making the rest of the world join us, otherwise staying in this bubble of over confident arrongance, will lead to sad results.

I am Ukrainian by birth, and I have lived on both sides of the divide ( west vs rest of the world) long enough to know that  even the best ideas , facts and figures fall short when a government decides to use force, let alone an informed well funded and heavily staffed government being egged on by bankers, heavy handed conservatives and Military industries.