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gnaritas
3834 days ago
Then no new bitcoins will be created and all mining profits will come from fees. That won't happen until 2140.
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poizan42
3834 days ago
There's some
very
big ifs in that. We really have no idea what sort of breakthroughs might happen the next 125 years
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gnaritas
3833 days ago
That's always true of the future, but the difficulty is continually self adjusting and pluggable and quantum proof algos exist so that'll be about the timeline no matter the power of future CPU's.
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