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We live in a world where the near-ish future could bring us asteroid mining. Something that could devastate the rarity of abundance of gold.

• felipeko 9y ago
  That is true, and this should really factor in the decline of gold in the future, but this does not help Bitcoin against it's e-coins rivals. And isn't Bitcoin hackable in a near-ish future with quantum computing?
  • sumedh 9y ago
    > quantum computing? I have been hearing that for last 15 years.
  • lsadam0 9y ago
    Yes, in it’s current state it most certainly is. Though as I recall there are already proposed updates to address this threat.