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Jakub Pawlicki
Mar 15, 2017Copper Contributor
Disrupting the blockchain as it stands today
What kind of algorithmic/technological developments would have to be made to make the concept of the blockchain as it stands today to become unusable? Are there any safeguards for a situation like th...
Matthew Kerner
Microsoft
Mar 15, 2017Can you elaborate Jakub? Certainly blockchain isn't in wide enterprise use in production yet for a variety of technical and business reasons. Which are top of mind for you?
Jakub Pawlicki
Mar 15, 2017Copper Contributor
something like making progress in hard cryptographic sciences, like finding ways in which hashing function/encryption schemes used today would be rendered easily made useless.
Progress in hardware/cluster computing making things computationally unfeasable made feasable unexpectedly.
Finding backdoors in algorithms being the backbone of the system.