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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 5369515, member: 27832"]Sure. But if <i>I</i> could get a time machine, I'd pay extra for the one that can go back to 2009 or 2010, and take along a 2020 laptop. With modest but modern hardware, I could've out-mined the entire rest of the world, and socked away a few <i>million</i> BTC.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, one user outperforming the entire BTC network by an order of magnitude or so would have been... noticed. It probably would've been enough to torpedo confidence in the entire concept. "Sure, 'Mr. Satoshi', it all looks good on paper -- but according to this, there's someone who's getting several teraflops of performance out of <i>one node</i>. Now, if it's <i>that</i> easy to spoof the system, why should anyone trust it?"</p><p><br /></p><p>But there aren't any time travelers, or if there are, they're more subtle in their actions. (Wink, wink, call me?)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 5369515, member: 27832"]Sure. But if [I]I[/I] could get a time machine, I'd pay extra for the one that can go back to 2009 or 2010, and take along a 2020 laptop. With modest but modern hardware, I could've out-mined the entire rest of the world, and socked away a few [I]million[/I] BTC. Of course, one user outperforming the entire BTC network by an order of magnitude or so would have been... noticed. It probably would've been enough to torpedo confidence in the entire concept. "Sure, 'Mr. Satoshi', it all looks good on paper -- but according to this, there's someone who's getting several teraflops of performance out of [I]one node[/I]. Now, if it's [I]that[/I] easy to spoof the system, why should anyone trust it?" But there aren't any time travelers, or if there are, they're more subtle in their actions. (Wink, wink, call me?)[/QUOTE]
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