What happens when quantum computing is more prevalent.
Increase SHA from 256 to SHA-512. Then 1024. The thought of quantum computer cracking bitcoin protocol has been debunked. You can always Increase the bits of encryption.
increasing the bits on SHA will increase difficulty for everybody, the unknown part is if it is enough to deter people with quantum computing setups. we are still in quantum computing infancy with trillion dollar companies working on good use cases, i don't think we can definitively say what is and isn't possible at present.
i'm a dev by profession (a bad one if you ask udrider though) and i'm hesitant to say that SHA512 or 1024 would futureproof bitcoin.
Yeah I’m looking to buy and hold, sit on it for a couple of years
I'll never forget sitting on my couch with a friend who had bought 6,500 bitcoin for $0.33 and the price had risen to $1.80. He asked if he should liquidate and capture the profit. I said absolutely.
Oops.
And still riding that ratty old Gixxer he bought from his profits
Chalk it up to life's lesson's from other's mind blowing fuck-ups. :laughingStefan Thomas, a German-born programmer living in San Francisco, has two guesses left to figure out a password that is worth, as of this week, about $220 million.
The password will let him unlock a small hard drive, known as an IronKey, which contains the private keys to a digital wallet that holds 7,002 bitcoins. While the price of Bitcoin dropped sharply on Monday, it is still up more than 50% from just a month ago when it passed its previous all-time high around $20,000.
Oops. Life sucks when you can't remember your password.
SF Bitcoin owner can't remember password for account worth $220 million
Chalk it up to life's lesson's from other's mind blowing fuck-ups. :laughing
Of the existing 18.5 million Bitcoin, around 20% — currently worth around $140 billion — appear to be in lost or otherwise stranded wallets, according to the cryptocurrency data firm Chainalysis.
20%? Damn.
What percentage of support centres tickets are related to forgotten passwords.
I had to call them today cause I forgot the one I set back before I went on holidays.
Used to be I’d make my password the company name + a number. I’d increment the number every time I was asked to change my password. Back in December the new security features didn’t allow us to do that anymore. They messed up my system :mad
(CNN)A British man who accidentally threw a hard drive loaded with bitcoin into the trash has offered the local authority where he lives more than $70 million if it allows him to excavate a landfill site.
IT worker James Howells got rid of the drive, which held a digital store of 7,500 bitcoins, between June and August in 2013. He had originally mined the virtual currency four years earlier when it was of little value.
But when the cryptocurrency shot up in value and he went in search of it, he discovered that he had mistakenly thrown the hard drive out with the trash.
Now, with his lost bitcoin having soared even further, Howells has approached Newport City Council in Wales to ask for permission to dig a specific section of the landfill site where he believes the hard drive ended up.
In return, he has offered to pay the council a quarter of the current value of the hoard, which he says could be distributed to local residents.