The Future of Bitcoin and Ethereum

The world has gushed over Bitcoin and Ethereum, but the future doesn’t look so rosy.

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I’ve loosely followed cryptocurrency for almost a decade. In 2011, I briefly mined Bitcoin (and Litecoin, when it became clear that GPU mining BTC was unlikely to net me much of a reward) from my college dorm room. Bitcoin’s proof-of-work algorithm to create a…