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> You need half the computing resources on the planet to be devoted to Bitcoin for it to be secure.

Why do you say that? Bitcoin hardware is specialized and much faster at the task than general purpose computers. You need to spend just a small fraction of resources that all supercomputers cost to build and run to outpace them in calculating Bitcoin hashes.



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