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Re:Blockchain Healthcare 2016 Report – Promise and Pitfalls by grubles on Thursday October 06, 2016 @12:17AM (#12650215)
As per [0], cryptography standards such as ECRYPT II tend to say that Bitcoin's 256-bit ECDSA keys are secure until at least 2030-2040.

[0] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Quantum_computing_and_Bitcoin

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Re:Blockchain Healthcare 2016 Report – Promise and Pitfalls by bduerst on Thursday October 06, 2016 @12:42PM (#12653882)
Just because the bitcoin wiki says it, doesn't make it a good prediction. Experts also used to say that a computer couldn't beat a Go Grandmaster until 2030.

The other points are still problems of using bitcoin right now.

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