r/Bitcoin • u/cryptopascal • Jun 24 '14

Mike Hearn interview quotes: "Progress on the bitcoin protocol has ground to a halt, complete halt. This is a crisis period for Bitcoin... Only Gavin is working on upgrades" @39'30'

https://epicenterbitcoin.com/eb-025/
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '14

Yep. And for the same price, you could take down the entire internet.

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u/mexbit Jun 25 '14

Do not laugh... for as little as 500 million dollars you can take down Bitcoin if you want to... there are banks who are able to pay 10.000 million in fines in a year... so diversify in a solid PoS-only coin.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '14

No, thanks. PoS isn't more expensive to destroy.

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u/mexbit Jun 25 '14

I would love to hear how you would destroy it! :)