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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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