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To me its inevitable. And just a matter of time. Any year there could be a breakthrough that quickly leads to missing math.
by postalrat 2y ago
To me its inevitable. And just a matter of time. Any year there could be a breakthrough that quickly leads to missing math.
- kragen 2y agoWe still don't know if P = NP. You seem peculiarly certain it is, which is odd given that most of the people who study the topic strongly suspect otherwise. They could of course be wrong, but what makes you so sure?
- postalrat 2y agoAssuming P != NP we still don't have any proof that sha-2 etc can't be reversed (obviously there is a loss of data). It's implausible for now but someday I guarantee we will have the math that makes it trivial. It does not require P = NP.
- desumeku 2y agoThey would just patch the software.
- postalrat 2y agoYou can't patch the rules for the existing bitcoins. People would have to move them to new rules.
- desumeku 2y agoThat is not necessarily how this works. The only thing required to happen is that a super-majority of the miners running the bitcoin software voluntarily update to a new version. This is how changes have been done to BTC before.