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damn it peaked at 125k last time.
Every time this happens I hope it's the final one, and so far every time I've been disappointed.
same
The crypto cult is still going hard, i am sure its gonna bounceback. Some people just hopelessly throw money at it lol
I think you might wanna get ready for more disappointment, say maybe two or three years from now
Quantum computing will eventually make specifically Bitcoin worthless. Eth at least gets upgrades, so it might survive.
Some people is saying that Quantum compunting is a hype too. But I am no expert.
Depends what you're ascribing to it.
Will it break encryption? Yes. That's been well understood since the 90's.
Will it help solve certain specific physics problems, including practical ones? Also yes.
Will it do literally anything else? Maybe, maybe not. Honestly, even calling it a "computer" is misleading unless you're an expert. For layman purposes it's more like an electron microscope or ultracentrifuge. Very useful for a very narrow set of tasks.
I know about Shor and Grover algorithms and database search. My doubts are about the availability of scalable implementations of Quantum compunting.
Ah. Yeah, that's not a sure thing, but progress has been very, very encouraging lately, and there's no obvious fundamental limit, either. Progress on the error correcting codes has even happened, which was unexpected when the big push to build a QC began.
(FWIW, Grover's search algorithm is more of a toy than anything. You're getting a quadratic speedup on exponentially hard problems, which leaves them still exponentially hard)
Bitcoin has an inbuilt mechanism to make it exponentially harder to mine. That means the labor value to mine it will keep growing and that sets an ever increasing minimum price floor on the currency.
Is this a sensible way of making a currency? Hell no. Does this mean that bitcoin invesment as an asset will continue to endure for more years? Yes.
The only thing that could feasibly crash the bitcoin market is if most bitcoin users and miners move to a more sensible crypto that is designed for transactions and not investment.
iirc, it's miners that process Bitcoin transactions, so if the miners all quit there's no infrastructure left to allow for the exchange of Bitcoins
Yeah but the miners will not all quit all of a sudden. If many quit but there are still enough left, the remainder will enjoy higher profits since they'll crack more blocks (iirc miners compete for blocks)