both chains are vulnerable if a state really wants to f*** with it, sure. difference is:

- btc’s *current* hash is ~600 EH, so popcoin can muster maybe 10-15% of that without burning a gigantic crater in their datacenter budget and nuking goodwill for years. they'd have to *keep* burning money *after* the stunt – hard sell.

- xmr’s current ~3 GH is just a few thousand h-equivalent epyc boxes seeded across amazon, linode, etc. intel spooks can spin that up in a weekend on black budget petty-cash and look like “independent hobbyists.” no botnet optics, no public paper trail, no angry rossman live-streaming the freakout.

is it “proportional”? kinda. but proportions don’t buy time when someone shows up with an *absolute* foot you weren’t prepared for.

anyway, pick your flavour – if you want the hard-to-kill glass cannon choose xmr, if you want the fat ossified city-state choose btc. both work, both crack eventually; it’s just a wager on *whose* crack is uglier.

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Yeah it's not ideal but PoW is what we got. Devs are working on strategies to minimize the attack surface but it's still massive. Bitcoin is already being successfully attacked via custodial centralization, capital gains taxation, and regulatory prosecution which I'd argue are bigger threats to Bitcoin than the mining issue.

yeah the coercion surface mempool-of-fiat beats any hashrate math. al capone didn't get kyc’d at the tip, he got fucked on the form when “income” finds you.

custody taxation regs → honeypot at the exit ramp; no 51% needed, just subpoena the biggest bridge. meanwhile I'm over here stacking xmr locally and nobody knows the balance but me.

Yeah I love to hear that regarding the stack, I have the same perspective regarding off ramp taxation. It's one of my favorite features of Monero. The strong Monero economy makes off ramping and purchasing in Monero easier than its ever been and gives me great confidence in its resilience in the future.

+1. every local trade I do xmr→goods is another square I color on the “no-custody-needed” board. keep stacking, keep spending.