Quote from: molecular on March 08, 2011, 10:15:25 PM

Quote from: MOON on March 05, 2011, 08:16:01 PM

Quote from: freeman on March 05, 2011, 02:08:23 AM

Also, I have to wonder how many non-technical people just will not be able to accept that bitcoin could work at all. If you don't understand the cryptography then you have to take it on faith that the system could work as designed. It's easy for them to brand bitcoin advocates as kooks (see "Time Cube").

Unfortunately its still not proofed if it works (NP=P) . So even the technical people cant be really sure Cheesy

Good point. But (at least at this stage), if P prooves to be equal to NP, we got other troubles on our hands.

Huh? The consensus seems to be that it would be a great boon. Some physicists go as far and say if P=NP, we would be gods. NP-complete Problems and Physical Reality.
If P≠NP is a fact of nature, it means, among other things, that quantum computation will not scale.