News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Cryptography behind the top cryptocurrencies. Parent comment

Re:Cryptography behind the top cryptocurrencies by wtvanhest on Saturday March 20, 2021 @09:48PM (#26527503)
I started learning how to program some solidarity for fun and just to understand the whole concept better. While I agree that in the short-run 1-5 years, it’s extremely unlikely that something wins agains ETH, but... in the long run, 10-20 years, it’s a lot harder to know.

Not sure what that means for anything, but it’s important to remember that what we consider the gold standard today, BTC, ETH, they may be tomorrow’s tin.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Cryptography behind the top cryptocurrencies by herbst on Sunday March 21, 2021 @07:09AM (#26529590)
This has happened before. A few years ago many did not understand the concept of smart chains and rather invested into new litecoin clones, all of which are replaced in popularity by smart chain tokens only a few years later. I agree but i think 5 years is enough to disrupt everything.
[ Parent | on HN ]