Do you think that the central banks are secretly propping up tulips?
I mean bitcoins?
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SW-User
I think Bitcoin and the other cyptocurrencies are going to be casualties of the public key encryption apocalypse that's going to happen once quantum computers become practical.
Invisible · 26-30, M
@SW-User I don't think that's going to happen any time soon, but if it did, BTC would be the last thing on my mind
SW-User
@Invisible probably it won't be that soon, you're right, but I follow progress on this (I'm interested in a possible use for them in finding protein folding solutions) and it's definitely coming eventually unless by that time people are using some kind of public-key encryption that doesn't rely on the computational difficulty of factoring the product of two primes. You're also right that Bitcoin will be the least of your problems.