CalleMargarita
CalleMargarita t1_izee1tk wrote
Reply to comment by CalleMargarita in AskScience AMA Series: I'm Finn Brunton, and I wrote a book about the history of cryptocurrencies. Ask me anything! by AskScienceModerator
Other questions:
Do you think the bitcoin community will ever allow future consensus on changes to bitcoin, for instance to address quantum computers or to change to proof-of-stake?
Would proof-of-stake work for bitcoin?
Would a country or powerful consortium ever be able to get a cheap enough energy source to be able to destabilize bitcoin?
CalleMargarita t1_izec5iu wrote
Reply to AskScience AMA Series: I'm Finn Brunton, and I wrote a book about the history of cryptocurrencies. Ask me anything! by AskScienceModerator
How could a central bank digital cryptocurrency possibly ever work? How could a government possibly allow proof-of-work or proof-of-stake with a global distributed population potentially containing hostile foreign parties? And if they restricted it to supposedly non-hostile or domestic parties, wouldn’t that make it much easier to manipulate? Is there any reason a central bank would want to create a cryptocurrency besides FOMO?
CalleMargarita t1_izgmshc wrote
Reply to comment by novapbs in AskScience AMA Series: I'm Finn Brunton, and I wrote a book about the history of cryptocurrencies. Ask me anything! by AskScienceModerator
Thanks so much! I don’t know if you’re still responding, but if you are, what are some of the things that can be done with CBDCs that are hard to do now?