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		ceejayoz on Dec 7, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Steve Wozniak launches Efforce, a blockchain-based... > These are in entirely different classes of unlikely. I disagree. I'm ultimately arguing that this: > I understood it that if I keep the private key secure, nobody can take it away from me. Is demonstrably false, both from a practical and a technological standpoint. I've more faith in developed-world governments than I do in Bitcoin's miners.

samatman on Dec 7, 2020 [–]

For it to be demonstrably false for Bitcoin, you would have to demonstrate that it has ever been false.

Which you won't do, because you can't.

ceejayoz on Dec 7, 2020 | [–]

Sorry, you’re arguing Bitcoin is technologically immune to a 51% attack?

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