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> just fork the chain and move on

It's not quite that simple - the chain will need to be forked with a protocol whose algorithm doesn't allow these miners to continue to dominate. And achieving consensus on that in the heat of the moment will be non-trivial.

Any fork that continues to use SHA-256 will be a trivial target for attack by these miners; they won't blindly continue to mine the "defunct" chain.



Ya, it'd cause some short term disruption, to be sure. But it's not an existential threat. And it certainly doesn't make Bitcoin 'centralized'.


There are more than 1 variable in the outcome. And from what I see it is very existential. Just not used yet.


the bitcoin gold algorithm, achieving consensus will be possible, because is a threat to bitcoin existence (user activated), won't be "that simple" but will be another attack and bitcoin will emerge stronger.




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