Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Scaling Bitcoin conference micro-report

From: "NxtChg" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 00:10:47 +0300

>Anyone who doesn't consider governments the proper threat model is either a shill or an idiot.

You meant to say "threat". This is what threat model is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threat_model

Nobody here discounts governments as a threat.

As to the "proper threat model", you can't construct one since your attacker is essentially unbounded.

For example, any large government could easily obtain 51% of hash power and then only accept transactions from "certified services".