Which makes me wonder how easy it would be to take over the network. Buying 30,000 RasPi is reletively inexpensive.
What’s stopping say Michael Saylor buying them and tacking some poor bastard with...
That would be a hard fork. The 20,000 OG nodes would keep chugging along with the OG Bitcoin. And the new Bitcoin doesn’t have the numbers to compete and probably other compromises.
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