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Re:FBI struggles to seize 600,000 Bitcoins from alleged Silk... by khafra on Monday October 07, 2013 @09:33AM (#6508091)
> It will be fascinating to see how this plays out.

The obvious way would be ambiguity about the final fate of his bitcoins, and centuries' worth of hacker legends about the lost treasure of the Dread Pirate Roberts.

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Re:FBI struggles to seize 600,000 Bitcoins from alleged Silk... by imdsm on Monday October 07, 2013 @11:02AM (#6508665)
> centuries' worth of hacker legends about the lost treasure of the Dread Pirate Roberts

It is amazing to think that in a few hundreds years, quite possibly, bitcoin/a bitcoin derivative could be the "global" currency, and this wallet could actually be a lost treasure among people. Sometimes it's easy to think we're just in the here and now, but we are making history, we're in the future's past.

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Re:FBI struggles to seize 600,000 Bitcoins from alleged Silk... by cookiecaper on Monday October 07, 2013 @06:15PM (#6511673)
It's also reasonable to believe that the cryptographic technologies upon which bitcoin depends will not withstand a few hundred years of technological advancement.
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Re:FBI struggles to seize 600,000 Bitcoins from alleged Silk... by deegles on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @05:54PM (#6518076)
By then we'll have a new generation of cryptocurrency. I hope it will be called Qubitcoin. :)
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