yeah good point probably wouldn't want to buy a TPU right now even if you could. my current frame-of-reference is around Macs which usually don't have this problem. I got the m4 pro Mac mini and I am really glad I did. At the time I did not have any concrete uses for it but almost immediately I was able to find and start working on projects that the great RAM + storage + CPU/GPU cores unlocked for me.
If this were a codified change one of two things happen: everyone ignores it, or there’s mass chaos and confusion as exchanges and wallet change the verbiage around people’s money.
Always buy the highest spec computer possible. Compute is freedom.
forgot to tag #introductions hi. I have been obsessing about bitcoin over the past week and i found my way here
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I think I answered my own question and this is in the realm of very hypothetical since getting to whatever a "maximum difficulty" looks like is hard to define and it doesn't even really matter since most of the supply is out there.
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?