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Re:For Sale: 29,656.51306529 Bitcoins by tkinom on Thursday June 12, 2014 @10:31PM (#7887190)
What if, one day, someone equips with quantum computer + smart can figure out the private hashes in anyone's wallet base on the public BTC record?

Would the BTC become completely worthless immediately?

Re:For Sale: 29,656.51306529 Bitcoins by LeoPanthera on Thursday June 12, 2014 @11:03PM (#7887261)
If it happened overnight - perhaps.

But the algorithms behind Bitcoin are agreed on literally by consensus, the clients in the network which reach a majority are in control.

If it became clear that something in Bitcoin was about to be broken, the algorithm could be changed to something more secure, if a majority agreed.

Past transactions would not be affected - they are immutable - and new ones would become safe.

Re:For Sale: 29,656.51306529 Bitcoins by maerF0x0 on Friday June 13, 2014 @12:04AM (#7887388)
It would also depend on the economics of said quantum computing. But yes, I'd expect the value to decline because one could not guarantee their currency anymore. Similarly if someone invented a teleporter that targeted US currency, it'd become worthless because a thief could just teleport it out of your pocket.