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Re: Bitcoin uses far too much energy

Unread postby EnergyUnlimited » Sun 14 Jan 2018, 16:32:03

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Outcast_Searcher', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', '
')Bitcoins are vanishing when passwords (private keys) are lost. Computer crash will not destroy your bitcoins. You can access them from *any* computer, as long as you have your private key at hand. Hence they are for example quite resistant to confiscation. Taking away your computer won't do if your private key is not recorded on it.

What about the widely cited stories about various Bitcoin sites that have been hacked, where many people have lost significant amounts / percentages of their bitcoins?
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Bitcoins are not disappearing here but simply changing an owner. Very much like funds from compromised credit cards.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') want no part of a "currency" that isn't regulated well enough to protect against such problems. At least financial accounts have SIPC, FDIC, auditing, etc. (Since I don't cheat on my taxes and the reality of big government, the NSA, etc., I'm not buying any assurances that crypto will give us some magic elixar to avoid all taxes. If that becomes a credible threat, government WILL act to prevent it, via law, regulation, etc).

Physical theft is an issue, which is why I hardly ever use physical cash anymore except to feed parking meters (not having a smart phone) and the occasional pre-cash-card washing machine, and the odd lawn mover or snow shoveler who wants cash.

(Like KJ, I take some serious effort to try to protect my online accounts).

I do not know, what you are doing in your private life and I care little about that, but above you have done a great deal of an ass licking to your TPTB and this will be recorded by them and remembered as a good deed, even if done not out of heart but by desire to be politically correct. You just done your share of flag waving.

Setting aside these, most of money in bitcoin and other crypto is made by buying it cheap and selling expensive. There are millions of cretins on bitcoin exchanges, characters of FOMO-type, and you can perpetually feed them with expensive bitcoins (they tend to buy on the top) which you can buy again during corrections. So within last three months my son have made something in excess of $1 million starting with $20000. Profits are so hefty and wealth grows so fast that he is actually happy to pay these taxes, so government fuck off of him. In normal business he would do whatever needed to minimize these, just to stay above water.
Dont know, how long this eldorado will last, but as long as it does my son won't rest.
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Re: Bitcoin uses far too much energy

Unread postby KaiserJeep » Sun 14 Jan 2018, 19:02:22

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', '-')snip-
Quantum computers are permitted by laws of physics and basic proves of concept are being tested right now in labs. They may or may not be developed into machines superior to existing ones, but dismissing them off hand seems foolhardy.
It is wise for these dealing with encryption technology to assume that quantum computers will be made up to the task and make sure that their codes are resistant to assaults by these machines. Otherwise many secrets may become available to public (and adversaries) and huge ambarasment dwarfing Snowden revelations may result. Eventual breaking of bitcoin encryption may be one of more mundane and unimportant consequences.


I am not dismissing anything out of hand. The theories of quantum computing are interesting enough to read about. However I know from experience how many years it takes to bring a new computer design to market based solely upon current existing technology. In the case of real quantum computers - not the marketing BS that attaches a meaningless label to ordinary existing technology - we are several years from sellable models - or indeed, even working computers as opposed to tiny individual circuits.

Not to mention, there have been zero cryogenic computers either in labs or in production. Likewise there are no room temperature superconductors in commercial production either. There are significant technical issues to overcome before these quantum computers can exist.

Quantum computing is like warp drive. You can imagine it, you can make calculations about performance. You cannot build a warp reactor and you can't fuel it if you could, because there is no anti-matter on Earth larger than a single particle, barely detectable when it vanishes in a flash of photons.
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Re: Bitcoin uses far too much energy

Unread postby EnergyUnlimited » Sun 14 Jan 2018, 19:47:47

I would not compare quantum computers to warp drive.
Former are within grasp of existing or near tech and later is pure fantasy.
You would probably need stellar mases of antimatter and also stellar mases of so called hypothetical "negative mass matter" also known as "exotic matter" to produce something what might resemble warp drive. Then your starship would need to maintan integrity in environment so harsh that exploding supernova would seem like a tiny candle by comparison.

Btw, we have produced more antimatter by now than you think. Maybe 10-100 nanograms in total, mostly in form of positrons and antiprotons. About 2ug (2 x 10^-6 gram) of antimatter is at any given time in Van Allen belts.
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Re: Bitcoin uses far too much energy

Unread postby Outcast_Searcher » Sun 14 Jan 2018, 23:47:44

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Outcast_Searcher', '
')But getting to 5000 or 10000 in a few years or even ten years seems COMPLETELY contradictory to the most aggressive expectations I found of IBM selling 50 qubit quantum computers in a few or perhaps ten years, if things go well.

Moore law may be applicable and this can result in huge surprises, how fast number of q-bits grow.

I'm finding your claims re quantum computing less and less credible.

First, you said this upthread to me, re your opinion of where quantum computing is going on Friday 1/12/18:
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This would require 5000-10000 q-bits quantum computers. Few years in the future, 10 years at most if BAU last this long.

And now you're claiming Moore's Law "may" be applicable. Yeah, maybe. But it operates on the scale of decades to move from 20 or 50 to 5000 or 10000 of something. Not a few years.

Then, down-thread, you admit to KJ that quantum computers are still toys in the lab and may or may not have practical sales outside the lab.

So you seem to be ALL OVER the map on this.

...

Again, I'm seeing more of a rah-rah flavor than hard proof on the crypto-currency promises, generally. And again, since there are no existing seriously powerful quantum computers, such claims can't be tested.

I haven't looked at the serious white papers cited. Again -- I fully admit I'm only a layman re quantum computing. (I might want to do that at the point seriously powerful quantum computers are actually being sold commercially).

The crypto-currency hacking problem, which you blithely dismiss as though it doesn't matter, is WAY more serious in my mind anyway, unless and until powerful quantum computers actually show signs of existing very soon. Today they don't. (Visa losses, which you compared crypto hacking losses to, are limited to $50 as long as an individual reports problems to the issuing bank within 48 hours, last time I looked. Crypto-currencies have no such assurances. The benefits and the curse of supposed privacy.)
Given the track record of the perma-doomer blogs, I wouldn't bet a fast crash doomer's money on their predictions.
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Re: Bitcoin uses far too much energy

Unread postby careinke » Mon 15 Jan 2018, 00:17:08

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')I do not know, what you are doing in your private life and I care little about that, but above you have done a great deal of an ass licking to your TPTB and this will be recorded by them and remembered as a good deed, even if done not out of heart but by desire to be politically correct. You just done your share of flag waving.

Setting aside these, most of money in bitcoin and other crypto is made by buying it cheap and selling expensive. There are millions of cretins on bitcoin exchanges, characters of FOMO-type, and you can perpetually feed them with expensive bitcoins (they tend to buy on the top) which you can buy again during corrections. So within last three months my son have made something in excess of $1 million starting with $20000. Profits are so hefty and wealth grows so fast that he is actually happy to pay these taxes, so government fuck off of him. In normal business he would do whatever needed to minimize these, just to stay above water.
Dont know, how long this eldorado will last, but as long as it does my son won't rest.
This is one shot in life opportunity.


Could you ask your son what he is using to track his trades? I am searching for a good one. Tax time is coming....
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Re: Bitcoin uses far too much energy

Unread postby EnergyUnlimited » Mon 15 Jan 2018, 04:10:53

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', '
')I do not know, what you are doing in your private life and I care little about that, but above you have done a great deal of an ass licking to your TPTB and this will be recorded by them and remembered as a good deed, even if done not out of heart but by desire to be politically correct. You just done your share of flag waving.

Setting aside these, most of money in bitcoin and other crypto is made by buying it cheap and selling expensive. There are millions of cretins on bitcoin exchanges, characters of FOMO-type, and you can perpetually feed them with expensive bitcoins (they tend to buy on the top) which you can buy again during corrections. So within last three months my son have made something in excess of $1 million starting with $20000. Profits are so hefty and wealth grows so fast that he is actually happy to pay these taxes, so government fuck off of him. In normal business he would do whatever needed to minimize these, just to stay above water.
Dont know, how long this eldorado will last, but as long as it does my son won't rest.
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Could you ask your son what he is using to track his trades? I am searching for a good one. Tax time is coming....

In United States he is trading on Bittrex.
They are providing you with logs of transactions and provisions paid.
You can download these in form of CSV file, which is easy to work with for your accuntant.
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Re: Bitcoin uses far too much energy

Unread postby EnergyUnlimited » Mon 15 Jan 2018, 04:54:08

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Outcast_Searcher', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Outcast_Searcher', '
')But getting to 5000 or 10000 in a few years or even ten years seems COMPLETELY contradictory to the most aggressive expectations I found of IBM selling 50 qubit quantum computers in a few or perhaps ten years, if things go well.

Moore law may be applicable and this can result in huge surprises, how fast number of q-bits grow.

I'm finding your claims re quantum computing less and less credible.

First, you said this upthread to me, re your opinion of where quantum computing is going on Friday 1/12/18:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', '
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This would require 5000-10000 q-bits quantum computers. Few years in the future, 10 years at most if BAU last this long.

And now you're claiming Moore's Law "may" be applicable. Yeah, maybe. But it operates on the scale of decades to move from 20 or 50 to 5000 or 10000 of something. Not a few years.

2^10=1024
So if we double number of q-bits every year, we are going to have more than 20000 q-bits in 10 years (out of 20 now)
2^7=128
So if we double number of q-bits every 18 months (as we were averagely doing with density of transistors for decades, we will have 2560 q-bits in 10 years (out of 20 now)
So you may consider your position about impossibilty again and read more about the subject of Moore Law.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')hen, down-thread, you admit to KJ that quantum computers are still toys in the lab and may or may not have practical sales outside the lab.
I am not a prophet to know future prospects of new tech for certain but if development of transistors is an indication of possible progress then outcome will be awsome within several years.
BTW, there was plenty of whiners in 1950-ties who were claiming that transistors or lasers are lab curiosity which will never make it to the commerce. First transistor had a volume of glass of water.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')o you seem to be ALL OVER the map on this.
Not really.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')gain, I'm seeing more of a rah-rah flavor than hard proof on the crypto-currency promises, generally. And again, since there are no existing seriously powerful quantum computers, such claims can't be tested.
These machines may be theoretically studied in detail and performance assesed with good accuracy.
The only question is about feasibility of building them.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he crypto-currency hacking problem, which you blithely dismiss as though it doesn't matter, is WAY more serious in my mind anyway, unless and until powerful quantum computers actually show signs of existing very soon. Today they don't.
Hacking problems are relevant only once you entrusted your coins to a third party like an exchange devoid of certain security features. In your private wallet bitcoins (and other coins) are safe from hackers and resistant to confiscation by government.
Btw, if you are playing on stock exchange, you are expected to take a risk. Hacking risk is not greater than a risk of a corpo in which you are invested going bankrupt or severely downsized.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '(')Visa losses, which you compared crypto hacking losses to, are limited to $50 as long as an individual reports problems to the issuing bank within 48 hours, last time I looked. Crypto-currencies have no such assurances. The benefits and the curse of supposed privacy.)
This is obviously a nonsense, you may go and argue your case to victim of bank bail-ins in Cyprus and elsewhere in Europe if you wish. So I will assert again: Your money in bank are NOT SAFE and plenty was already stolen from accounts in FIRST WORLD countries in recent years. EU wide anything in excess of Euro 100000 can be lawfully confiscated to facilitate bail-ins.

While deciding where you invest it is wise to consider average, common profits rather than rare incidences of losses (hacks of bitcoin exchanges, even if trumpeted widely are actually rare).
Doing otherwise will make you a loser.
Lets do a math:
Keeping $20000 in your bank will make you $100 of profit per year (you will actually lose purchasing power due to inflation).
Trading coins with the same initial capital made for my son more than a million within last few months.
Keping money in bank makes you a loser, exactly like mainstream system which you are glorifying wants. Winners are owners of the system in this case but you are not one of these.
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Re: Bitcoin uses far too much energy

Unread postby EnergyUnlimited » Mon 15 Jan 2018, 11:01:41

Btw,
Apparently 50 q-bit quantum computer was made last year and it is tested in IBM labs:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/6094 ... -computer/
https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/09/thi ... ooks-like/

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Re: Bitcoin uses far too much energy

Unread postby Outcast_Searcher » Mon 15 Jan 2018, 13:32:23

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', '
')Keping money in bank makes you a loser, exactly like mainstream system which you are glorifying wants. Winners are owners of the system in this case but you are not one of these.



So there it is. At the end of the day, resort to name-calling, like the ETP head "theorist", if you don't agree with someone. If FAITH made things true, the world would be a far different place.

Decide apriori on the winners and losers because you wish it were so.

Good luck with that.

I'd rather "kep" [sic] my money in dollars (actually well diversified into global markets) than risk watching it evaporate in a hack while it sits in an uninsured, unregulated source, or when the tulip-mania style bubble pops. But of course that can't possibly happen, because you don't think so. :roll:

Again, best of luck with that.
Given the track record of the perma-doomer blogs, I wouldn't bet a fast crash doomer's money on their predictions.
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Re: Bitcoin uses far too much energy

Unread postby EnergyUnlimited » Mon 15 Jan 2018, 13:57:24

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Outcast_Searcher', '
')I'd rather "kep" [sic] my money in dollars (actually well diversified into global markets) than risk watching it evaporate in a hack while it sits in an uninsured, unregulated source, or when the tulip-mania style bubble pops. But of course that can't possibly happen, because you don't think so. :roll:

Again, best of luck with that.

...or watch it confiscated to facilitate banksters bail-ins while in regulated and insured custody or when approximately $1 quadrillion debt & derivatves bubble pops.
But of course that can't possibly happen, because you don't think so.

Again, best luck with that.

Btw, my son is a winner as per experimental evidence and certainly *not* a priori decided winner. He cannot possibly lose on crypto by any imaginable means, even if "tulip mania style bubble" have popped.
$20000 went in, more than $100000 already came out and is off crypto related risk and more than $1million still in crypto trade.
So he won... and very fast. :-D
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Re: Bitcoin uses far too much energy

Unread postby Outcast_Searcher » Mon 15 Jan 2018, 14:48:56

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', '
')Btw, my son is a winner as per experimental evidence and certainly *not* a priori decided winner. He cannot possibly lose on crypto by any imaginable means, even if "tulip mania style bubble" have popped.
$20000 went in, more than $100000 already came out and is off crypto related risk and more than $1million still in crypto trade.
So he won... and very fast. :-D

And good for your son IF he's smart enough to keep the winnings off the table, and keep taking some rational percentage of future winnings (if prices keep increasing) off the table.

(Do you understand that I'm NOT criticizing you or your son? I'm pointing out the risks, while you seem to imply this is a sure thing).

NEVER CONFUSE GENIUS WITH A BULL MARKET.

I played that same game with stocks like Microsoft in the 90's. I was lucky enough to pick some good companies during a big market boom. The only smarts I'll take credit for was taking half off the table each and every stock split, once the numbers got big enough (amazingly quickly) to scare me, should the market collapse.

...

The problem is, everyone (and most likely even a majority) can't magically be like your son and get rich quick off the pyramid scheme operating today. There was an excellent editorial in the NYT, and lots of good comments about that yesterday.



https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/styl ... pe=article
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Re: Bitcoin uses far too much energy

Unread postby KaiserJeep » Mon 15 Jan 2018, 15:44:32

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', 'B')tw,
Apparently 50 q-bit quantum computer was made last year and it is tested in IBM labs:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/6094 ... -computer/
https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/09/thi ... ooks-like/

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Look, you cannot be that silly. (I wanted to say "stupid", but thought better of it.) That "amazing" quantum computer operates for all of 90 microseconds, less than 1/10,000th of a second. That computer has the operating system built in (a necessity because it cannot operate long enough to boot up), and does not do anything useful, it's barely capable of running the benchmark test for computing speed. It is indeed the most advanced quantum computer made, and it's totally useless as anything but a laboratory toy.

The first cryogenic switches were demonstrated in the 1980s. It has taken an additional 30 years to construct a cryogenic computer that even can be aptly described as a computer, and even then it's not one capable of doing any actual work. I'll mention one more characteristic of cryogenic circuitry: it has to be submerged in a liquid coolant such as liquid nitrogen to function. This is what a cryogenic plant to produce liquid nitrogen looks like:
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...it's a whole room full of machinery that consumes a LOT of energy. But it does indeed enable the operation of microelectronic devices that themselves consume near zero power. I'll mention that the liquid helium generating plants that are necessary for quantum computing are constructed within liquid nitrogen tanks, and I could not find a suitable image, so imagine a liquid helium plant inside of one of the larger vessels above.

The "quantum computers" that are being simulated using standard technology computing systems are also fairly useless devices, whose only purpose is to model the new technology, running software that such machines would run if they actually existed, which they do not. They run at the much slower speeds of current technology, and the performance on quantum hardware is then calculated from the benchmarks by multiplying to account for the differences between a "real" and a "virtual" quantum computer.

These problems I am talking about are problems with basic materials science. When you run an electric current through a superconducting circuit, the electromagnetic field degrades the superconductor. Today's superconducting alloys are significantly better than those in the 1980s when a single circuit called a "flip-flop" was constructed, demonstrating the ability to store a single bit. Today we can build thousands of such devices that collectively function for almost 1/10,000th of a second. That is significant progress but far short of production-ready.

What is needed for quantum computing to reach the commercial market is room temperature superconductivity, plus a new fabrications technology that allows us to build dense microelectronic computer circuitry utilizing room temperature superconductive alloys. The good news is that R&D is being conducted on both fronts. Recently for example, organic semiconductors have been created. These are fundamentally different in nature from the existing silicon semiconductor devices. They are now entering production in consumer devices - the "OLED" (organic light emitting diodes) curved UHD (ultra high definition) televisions with curved screens that cost thousands of dollars, but really do outperform the conventional HDTVs they may some day replace if costs continue to decline. However these devices were demonstrated in laboratories 15+ years ago.

Invest your own money in quantum computers and cryptocurrencies if you wish. I'll not risk any of my own.
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Re: Bitcoin uses far too much energy

Unread postby EnergyUnlimited » Mon 15 Jan 2018, 18:01:09

@Kaiser Jeep,
Why to make looking difficult things which are actually simple?
Don't you think that it is rather stupid to build dedicated air/nitrogen liquification plants to run small cryogenic systems for low temperature circuitry, if liquid nitrogen is a plentiful waste from steel industry and can be purchased cheaply in Dewar like tanks in quantities between few liters to many thousands of cubic meters?
There are also dedicated liquid helium plants, so why to build your own?
Some time ago I was working with nuclear magnetic resonance equipment and both liquified gases were coming in once a month or two in handy 250L Dewar vessels on wheels.
Anyway why didn't you mention 3He/4He isotopic refrigeration step, which is certainly needed to go down from He-2 temperature to required 10mK? This bit considerably adds to expenses of running quantum computer, more than initial cooling steps.
Finally, why didn't you mention possibility that 3He/4He isotopic refrigeration system can be constructed in such a way that no additional cryogenic coolants (liquid N2 and liquid He) are needed and small compact machine can result?

Lets leave alone simulators of quantum computers. They are just simulators.

Said 90 microseconds is more of an issue but scientists working with Einstein-Bose condensates are getting quite crafty with keeping cold matter in coherrent state. I believe that there will be some spilloffs to quantum computing field rather sooner than later.

You do not need RT superconductivity to run quantum computer. That wouldn't wash in any case.
To prevent decoherence you need to go close to absolute zero anyway. Quantum computer *must* be a sophisticated cryogenic device. I do not claim that commercial quantum computer will be cheap and available to public from Walmart.
I suspect that cheapest versions will cost many millions and they will be deployed by military, large corporations (pharma will benefit a lot for drug modelling), government agencies and yes, few billionarie geeks.
And they will be deployed within few years from now on... and several years later they may be in position to intercept bitcoin payments in real time.
This is why wise encryptors will make their codes resistant to quantum assault *now* and stupid ones will ignore this technology only to find their secrets revealed within 10 years or so. Can be very embarassing.

Sorry, you still need upgrade to quantum version or you will be replaced.
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Re: Bitcoin uses far too much energy

Unread postby KaiserJeep » Mon 15 Jan 2018, 19:27:22

EU, I could be wrong about this, but I have you pegged as a science nerd and software type. That is of course just about the opposite viewpoint of a working engineer like myself (although I recently retired).

There are no quantum computers, there are no inexpensive small cryogenic plants that produce liquid helium, there are no room temperature superconductors either.

If you believe any of these things do exist, post a link to their online store where they can be purchased. Meanwhile, all the tech that one can actually buy is available and most of it can be bought at amazon.com.

Of course, anything you buy is - by definition - obsolete before you receive it. That's the rub, you can never be entirely current in technology. But you also can't build anything at all with near future tech either.

Remember that most of the good ideas never become products.
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Re: Bitcoin uses far too much energy

Unread postby Outcast_Searcher » Mon 15 Jan 2018, 20:41:07

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('KaiserJeep', 'E')U, I could be wrong about this, but I have you pegged as a science nerd and software type. That is of course just about the opposite viewpoint of a working engineer like myself (although I recently retired).

There are no quantum computers, there are no inexpensive small cryogenic plants that produce liquid helium, there are no room temperature superconductors either.

If you believe any of these things do exist, post a link to their online store where they can be purchased. Meanwhile, all the tech that one can actually buy is available and most of it can be bought at amazon.com.

But no problem. Moore's Law will likely resolve this within a few years, because he thinks so. He's so confident that on this very thread, he explained Moore's Law for us. :roll: As though building machines capable of handling more qubits resolves the physical obstacles you point out...

It's like trying to discuss the financial outlook for Tesla with a Tesla fanboi, or credible economic figures or trends with a die hard fast crash doomer. Facts don't seem to penetrate, regardless of how they're presented.
Given the track record of the perma-doomer blogs, I wouldn't bet a fast crash doomer's money on their predictions.
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Re: Bitcoin uses far too much energy

Unread postby EnergyUnlimited » Tue 16 Jan 2018, 06:40:15

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('KaiserJeep', 'T')here are no quantum computers, there are no inexpensive small cryogenic plants that produce liquid helium, there are no room temperature superconductors either.

1. First quantum computers are built in labs right now and under testing.
2. There are large liquid helium plants which are selling liquid hellium cheaply enough to use it in labs and hospitals around a world. You do not need to build a small one.
3. Room temperature superconductors are not needed to build quantum computer.

I would also note, that engineers working on construction of hand grenades are of little utility in works producing atomic bombs.

Shortly, you are rising strawman arguments:
1. you are stupidly insisting on constructing small liquid helium plants next room to your quantum computer, even if liquid helium is relatively cheap, commercially available commodity. I was working with tens of liters of it and nearest liquification plant was more than 500 miles away.
2. You are insisting on use of RT superconductors, which are not needed in working quantum computers and that is because at RT decoherrence would kill quantum computing on the spot, superconductor, or no superconductor. Quantum computer *must* be a sophisticated, cryogenic device.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')f you believe any of these things do exist, post a link to their online store where they can be purchased. Meanwhile, all the tech that one can actually buy is available and most of it can be bought at amazon.com.

It is tedious and pointless to discuss with peoples who argue that items not available on amazon or in another store dont or cannot exist.

Summary:
You are in urgent need of upgrade. Your 4.77 MHz XT processor is obsolete and 128kb of RAM is insufficient.
You should also consider installing DOS 6.22. Your current version 2.0 is significantly underperforming.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Outcast_Searcher', 'B')ut no problem. Moore's Law will likely resolve this within a few years, because he thinks so. He's so confident that on this very thread, he explained Moore's Law for us. :roll: As though building machines capable of handling more qubits resolves the physical obstacles you point out.

Those who have nothing intelligent to say should keep quiet.
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Re: Bitcoin uses far too much energy

Unread postby KaiserJeep » Tue 16 Jan 2018, 12:12:23

If you think quantum computers are real, in spite of links which say the best one at an IBM lab stays online for 90 microseconds and only executes a performance benchmark before going offline, then include the link where they can be bought. If they exist, then include links describing the operating systems in use. If they are real, who sells them?

Because I believe that cryogenic digital computing is in it's infancy and no such general purpose machines exist. Do not confuse a statement that a given Physics or Computing laboratory has a goal of constructing such a machine with it's existence. In fact, I know of no commercially available cryogenic circuitry either, none has ever been described in IEEE publications.

I didn't say that laboratory toys did not exist. However, we do not have cryogenic electronic devices that can remain online, or can do useful work, or that can be bought because they are in production because even at -452 degrees, superconductivity is a fleeting phenomenon, not one that persists more than a few microseconds.

I used to have a job designing hydrogen MASERs for one of my Astronomy professors. These were basic analog amplifiers that operated at cryogenic temperatures to increase the signal-to-noise ratio and thus enable the detection of weaker RF signals. The liquid gasses produced a lower noise threshold but the amplifiers were not superconducting. This was in the late 1970s and I maintain an interest in such tech and I recently retired from a 34 year career building new digital computers for HP. Many generations of designs have passed since I left this program, and one of the MASERs that grew out of the effort is the present master frequency standard at NIST. But even that does not contain superconducting digital circuitry, because such tech is not in production.
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Re: Bitcoin uses far too much energy

Unread postby Outcast_Searcher » Tue 16 Jan 2018, 12:28:57

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', '
')Those who have nothing intelligent to say should keep quiet.

So why are you still here again? :roll:

You're starting to sound like pstarr. Oh that's right, you're not all over the map on quantum computers due to your strong defense of "Not really." Brilliant.

And crypto is the ultimate investment because you think so. Mega-brilliant.
Given the track record of the perma-doomer blogs, I wouldn't bet a fast crash doomer's money on their predictions.
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