[silk] Bitcoin

[Peter Thoenen]

>It is possible for any current governmental agency to hijack the entire
>system, due to their access to supercomputer infrastructures and/or immense
>budgets. This will however become less and less possible while bitcoin
>continues to grow and is already a massive and technological challenge which
>I do not see any governmental institutions execute proper.

I'm not so sure
that's true.  Given the network at all times knows the amount of nodes out
there (hence the 50%+1 rule for consensus) it would be trivial for a NSA
(Nation State Actor, not TLA) to stand up 50%+1 virtual nodes fast enough to
gain consensus and usurp the currencies (tokens) if I understand correctly the
mechanism for determining legitimate tokens from the EconTalk interview.  Am I
missing something here?