The miners decide what the rules are. Increasingly, that means ghash.io, discus fish, eligius, and btcguild. Biggest threat to bitcoin today.
Instead of the word "threat," you must really mean biggest "vulnerability"?
If the miners were to be infiltrated, then could destroy bitcoin, and I suppose there could be some miner-related battles in the future and attempts to figure out what is "good for" bitcoin.
I don't see any way to destroy Bitcoin that wouldn't hurt the destroyer even worse. It would take $20 billion to ensure it could be done and any failed attempt would make it more difficult to try again. You could really hurt it for much less, but not kill it and it would come back stronger. Even if you did kill it, another crypto would replace it almost immediately. You can't kill a protocol. The laws of economics are immune to legislative fiat.
This is one of the best points that you have made in weeks!!!!!



Maybe you have snapped out of your quasi-delirium state?
I'm just kidding.. .but I thank you for that point b/c I was thinking that there was something that I was missing.. and in the above post, you outlined the situation really well.
I will take back any negative thought that I almost had that involved you.
