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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: DECENTRALIZED crypto currency (including Bitcoin) is a delusion (any solutions?)
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Come-from-Beyond
on 10/01/2016, 19:38:10 UTC
Please show me your calculation.

Current Bitcoin difficulty = 103880340815.
Difficulty of 1 requires 2^32 hashes.
Number of hashes for current difficulty = 103880340815 * 2^32 = 446162666497758986240.
A quantum computer needs only SQRT(446162666497758986240) = 21'122'562'971.8 hashes.