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Friday Fun Thread for January 12, 2024

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Proof of work cryptocurrencies are, if anything, harmed by the development of cheaper compute. The compute difficulty is not a bottleneck, it's the POINT. When miners start solving the hashes too quickly the networks automatically adjust to increase the difficulty.

So if supercomputers got cheaper then all the miners would be forced to upgrade and otherwise nothing would change.

Nathan Fielder

You can't make more bitcoin, so price shouldn't go down unless stores of value that can't be inflated away become common.

There are plenty of factors that impact price besides total supply.

Yeah, if it gets banned or cracked down on. But US now approved Bitcoin ETFs, so that's quite .. unlikely now. It's also not great for crime either, so..

I don't really have any price thesis on Bitcoin, except that computation efficiency won't help it.