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Because advanacements accelerate with geometric progression, not linear one.
by XiphiasX 11mo ago
Because advanacements accelerate with geometric progression, not linear one.
- i80and 11mo agoYou 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 11mo agoSome do for a while like Moore's law. Many don't. Quantum computing seems kind of stuck.