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180 sats \ 3 replies \ @quark 19 Mar \ on: Time travel forwards, backwards, or money… mostly_harmless
100 million travel 50 years into the past and have no Bitcoin? no thanks :D and travel into the future is very scary
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172 sats \ 2 replies \ @kr OP 19 Mar freebie
if you go 50 years into the past you can create bitcoin 🤯
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138 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullama 19 Mar
I'm not sure about that.
One thing is the knowledge needed to create it, which, OK, you might be able to obtain today and travel back with it inside your brain. Let's assume you can.
Another hurdle is the computational power used for Bitcoin. All the constants were "just right" for the computational power at the time. I am not sure if you can come up with another set of constants, 50 years in the past.
Also, the network effect. 50 years ago, very few people were online, if any. You need peers to make Bitcoin a reality. Even in 2009 it was very rare that it worked, 50 years ago it might be impossible.
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64 sats \ 0 replies \ @quark 19 Mar
oh... haha you are right but 50 years is too many, I would have to wait for internet and better computers first, and I would be old. and then I would have to disappear like Satoshi, otherwise it would not be Bitcoin.
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