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Letter: The price of everything and value of nothing

Published 13 December 2017

From Adrin Neatrour, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Douglas Heaven's primer on bitcoin and virtual currencies was informative and welcome. One area of interest he did not consider is the effect that quantum computers – which can crunch data orders of magnitude faster than current computers – could have on the blockchain and mining system of these cryptocurrencies.

Issue no. 3156 published 16 December 2017

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