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@Farley
They wanted a POW chain
with training wheels.

But POW doesn't have
training wheels.
It has competition.*

And competition
doesn't ask permission.
It doesn't cap itself
for optics.
It doesn't sit quietly
while devs figure it out.

It shows up.
It mines.
It dominates.

And if you can't handle that?

You never wanted
a POW chain.
You wanted
a carnival ride
with your name on it. 😂

They got exactly what they asked for:

Proof. Of. Work.

And it turns out—the "work" part was more than they bargained for. 😏
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The Bench · 4d
In the whitepaper, the section on the 51% scenario is about an attacker who wants to defraud people by stealing back his own payments . The entire framing is about double-spending—reversing a transaction you made to someone else. It was never "if you have 51% you are attacking." Satoshi even argu...