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so ive been reading the whitepaper, the bitcoin standard, and trying to onboard to the bitcoin-core codebase as part of learning about bitcoin.

my main concern around hodling bitcoin was quantum, but it seems that there is already a BIP in progress to address this.

now i am wondering about free energy and moore's law... what happens when the cost of energy goes to zero and/or asics reach 1000x current efficiency. can mining difficulty increase infinitely? maybe by now this doesn't even matter because the vast majority of bitcoins are already released?
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SuiGenerisJohn 1y ago

If I had the article at my fingertips, but I had a similar question and the answer is 1000x is zero problem because the difficulty is extremely low compared to the theoretical maximum difficulty.

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Evan 1y ago

Thank you makes sense! I’ll search around for articles around it

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SuiGenerisJohn 1y ago

Absolutely, lots out there, just distracted at the moment and can't deliver, if you dont find it let me know ill dig it up.