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gnaritas
on Dec 22, 2015
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Bitcoin's mining difficulty has increased by 41.9%...
Then no new bitcoins will be created and all mining profits will come from fees. That won't happen until 2140.
poizan42
on Dec 22, 2015
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There's some
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big ifs in that. We really have no idea what sort of breakthroughs might happen the next 125 years
gnaritas
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That's always true of the future, but the difficulty is continually self adjusting and pluggable and quantum proof algos exist so that'll be about the timeline no matter the power of future CPU's.
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