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How can anything ever be changed once 51% is abandoned?

I also think there will be a gold rush of hacking old wallets one day when the encryption is broken. Not sure if that will happen before or after btc failure though. You can’t upgrade security on lost wallets.

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I think you're confusing proof of work with proof of stake. The integrity of the Bitcoin network is enforced by the miners agreeing on the rules, not by anyone staking their ownership for governance.

What about if you hack a lost wallet and then you transfer the coins to yourself. No proof of work needed then. It is just there, in your wallet.

Just… really suggest you take a deep dive into blockchain technologies. You’re confusing a few things.

Sure, all you have to do is compute until the heat-death of the universe. No proof of work needed!

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