Post #2175449

2026-04-28 23:59 UTC

I do like the idea of bitcoins becoming ancient treasure after they've all been mined. Plucky future cyberpirates comb through scrap hardware and ancient data repositories, searching for old caches. Legends of whales, in the wild but not yet lost to time, call some adventurers across the globe in search of ancient treasure.

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@queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-04-29 00:02

This is a fun premise that is completely ruined for me by the fact that it's kind of intrinsically an ad for cryptocurrency. I think the movie would be more fun in the future when crypto isn't such an active scourge on the internet.

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@0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-29 01:53

Won't future cyber pirates simply crack private keys by factoring primes on their quantum iPhones?

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@chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-29 03:51

It could happen, but there are several large existential threats Bitcoin has to overcome to avoid collapsing and being supplanted by something else and survive into the long term, especially quantum computing attacks and the structurally diminishing funding for Bitcoin miners. The people who maintain its code are very reluctant to make any upgrades.

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