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Re:Bitcoin's mining difficulty has increased by 41.9% over t... by gnaritas on Monday December 21, 2015 @07:13PM (#10774617)
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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Re:Bitcoin's mining difficulty has increased by 41.9% over t... by poizan42 on Monday December 21, 2015 @07:31PM (#10774723)
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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Re:Bitcoin's mining difficulty has increased by 41.9% over t... by gnaritas on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @02:36AM (#10776389)
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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