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XiphiasX | 4 months ago

Because advanacements accelerate with geometric progression, not linear one.

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i80and|4 months ago

You asked the question, but don't want to hear the answer.

Advancements are more often logarithmic than geometric: a brief flurry of progress as easy barriers are overcome, followed by a long unsexy slog of incrementalism.

Bitcoin may well be broken someday, but the time scale is on decades, which is well beyond the horizon for high-volatility markets like Bitcoin

tim333|4 months ago

Some do for a while like Moore's law. Many don't. Quantum computing seems kind of stuck.