> Barring algorithmic breakthroughs (like a discovery of a way to find SHA-256 > collisions that is much faster than brute search), it seems extremely > implausible to me that any one entity would ever amass enough advanced > technology to out-compute the entire Bitcoin mining community - or would > even want to if they could.
--you say this, and in practically the same breadth you also post you consider it reasonably likely the ENTIRE WORLD MONEY SUPPLY will be bitcoins. I dunno, does that sound like a little incentive to misbehave and outcompute, to you? Not want to? ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
