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> Indeed, the NSA has their own fab.

They could always just fab architectures specialized in BTC mining, assuming their fabrication capacity is of sufficient scale to get the job done.

I'm sure anyone who successfully performed a hostile takeover of BTC could find ways to recoup the initial investment in hardware.

That said, I would assume the majority of their fab output and available computing power is busy with more important things.



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