gwern comments on General Bitcoin discussion thread (June 2011) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 12 June 2011 09:49:10PM 0 points [-]

That's not a bad thing. Bitcoin is going to have to be majorly upgraded with a new blockchain when SHA-256 is broken, and money is not the only scarce things to be decentralizedly allocated - I previously commented on Namecoin.

Comment author: rhollerith_dot_com 12 June 2011 10:21:10PM *  0 points [-]

Bad thing or good thing, it makes a huge difference to the expected long-term value of a bitcoin, which is of interest to anyone thinking of holding bitcoins.