except that hash is not "ready to go." it's already being used for other profitable purposes. you ignored the point of the post, which is about the friction of bringing pressure to bear at all. You're trying to pretend like the US government is a single cohesive entity that can just call Amazon and use all of their compute power for whatever it wants. I'm pretty sure it doesn't work like that. but I don't know and neither do you. which is how I started the conversation. and you're just making up numbers. while I agree that there is certainly vastly more potential hash out there that could be mining monero, you continually ignore the fact that they don't need to physically control Bitcoin miners at all. they just have to send letters. nothing has already lost. another topic we haven't touched on yet is *the desire to attack the chain in the first place* this is another area where Monero has an advantage because of bitcoins visibility. so to come back to the beginning its trade-offs. both approaches have their negative points.

When bitcoin or monero becomes an existential risk to the us government they will taken over any industry and try to destroy you. In that situation you should fully expect all public miners to be seized and any potential miners to be used against you If you're hoping laws will protect you, you're an idiot