ClaimsBalaji Srinivasan

“the attack on BTC that I think would be the most likely is that the Chinese put up the great firewall against it.”

Balaji Srinivasan, interviewee 25 March 2021 Tim Ferriss Show #506 Balaji Srinivasan transcript (tim.blog) archived copy

Prediction Economics and markets

The most likely attack on Bitcoin is China putting up the Great Firewall against it, a network-level attack.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

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Reasoning

Comparative 'most likely' prediction with no horizon.

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Balaji Srinivasan, “The most likely attack on Bitcoin is China putting up the Great Firewall against it, a network-level attack.” (said 25 March 2021). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_3500b8f37d83, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_3500b8f37d83

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