Also a technological breakthrough that would make new quantum computers able to crack bitcoin would crash it's value to about zero.
i think were at like 8 qu-bit (quantum bit? ) computing.. that lasts hours..and im not sure if thats just data storage. To say were going to hear news of a 32000 qubit computer any time soon seems unlikely.. I believe that was the power required to crack the sha 256...however to some this was more likely then bitcoin being a 1000$usd lol
There are a few threads on the quantum computing issue worth looking through. I hadn't found them, so started
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=208147.msg2179677#msg2179677Anyway, apparently it's not actually a serious problem that couldn't be fixed