I understand that. How does one attack with bitcoin?
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you guys are making an entire thread without spelling "software" correctly !
that is blatherbot work
One doesnāt. This whole idea that bitcoin is a weapon (which was walked back by lowry) is nonsense. An honest decentralized ledger is not āpower projectionā that will take your enemies down. Watch the TFTC podcast with Jason, he couldnāt come up with one example of how bitcoinās hashrate secures anything other than bitcoin. He claims that somehow putting info behind a bitcoin paywall is revolutionary. Very skeptical about the whole thing. Lopp has a good article responding to his thesis.
How you should think about it is simply in terms of physical security. Not necessarily offense or defense.
The physically costly bits of information secured by proof-of-work can be used to drastically increase the cost of attacking your computer network to the point where it's literally too physically costly for any attackers to even attempt attacking.
A weapon can be either passive or active physical power projection.
A wall is technically a passive physical power projection weapon.
People think in terms of offense and defense.. but the right way to think of it is passive and active tactics, techniques, and technologies that allow you to achieve physical security.
> The physically costly bits of information secured by proof-of-work can be used to drastically increase the cost of attacking your computer network to the point where it's literally too physically costly for any attackers to even attempt attacking.
What bits are secured aside from the time chain ledger? This is general hand waving. How do you secure something other than bitcoin using bitcoin?
Design an API that requires all control actions, or especially sensitive control actions to be stamped with X amount of bitpower, therefore verifying a superfluous physical cost was paid to send the control signal.
It's not actually that complicated lmao.
> Design an API
This is exactly what Iām asking for. I donāt think you can. I donāt think anyone can. Lots of theories fall flat at practical application and I think softwar is one of them. Cool theory, doesnāt work in practice.
> itās not actually that complicated lmao.
So give me the concrete design for the API and stop with the theoretical word salad. I understand the thesis and all it entails. Doesnāt mean shit if you canāt deliver functioning code.
Who says functioning code hasn't already been implemented. Bitcoins network PROVES this concept is totally valid.
