🚨The Biggest RISKs to Bitcoin ?!?🚨 | HashPower Academy

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hello there and welcome to the hash power Academy the topic of today’s video is the biggest risks to bitcoin not just the asset but the underlying network of Technologies and commodities that are all intrinsically and mathematically linked together from energy all the way to finance through computation now there is several risks to all different parts of this bit of this network in a sense and let me just start with this if you were to try and kill bit coin so to speak to completely dismantle it entirely you would have to switch off every form of power production on this planet on and off every grid you would have to disconnect every single grid every electrical grid and switch it off you would have to destroy any form of computation any computer that could add Bitcoin blocks to the chain you’d have to completely dismantle and disconnect the entire internet and stop any form of device communicating with another you’d have to destroy every single node every uh SSD and every storage device for containing all of the Bitcoin transactions you’d have to destroy any form of system service product Market that is trying to allow people to communicate all of that digital money value between each other in a sense you would have to completely dismantle all of human civilizational infrastructure so I don’t think it’s going to happen but the topic of today’s video does also delve into the biggest risks in the context of the different businesses Associated to these different areas namely the centralization of compute power in the mining pools the decentralization of Central Banking the issuance power of money well Bitcoin decentralizes the issuance power of Bitcoin through who issues the blocks and who issues the blocks directly it’s the mining pools but they are a group of underlying Bitcoin miners that are Computing all into a poll and the poll manages the issuance the uh block templates which is all the different transactions that they are choosing to put in their block if the Bitcoin network was a uh an Excel spreadsheet uh and you can think of every line item being uh the ownership of the units on in each line um being the the Bitcoin wallets and their holders the nodes are everyone that has a copy of that Excel spreadsheet and the miners are essentially the ones that have right access they have permission to actually edit the sheet but they can only edit the sheet with the permission of the other two to add the information and update whose information is is moving to whose wallet so that’s an overall gist um other sorts of businesses are well the the production side of things from Bitcoin mining Hardware is from a handful of producers uh bitmain and what’s Miner but namely bitmain they have a significant market share of producing the computers that is an aspect of centralization that could be considered risk uh on the energy side of things not so much that’s that’s very decentralized Bitcoin is on and off every electrical grid on the planet it can be as small as a single little solar panel and a bit ax mini Miner it could be as big as an entire city and I do have design ideas for a Bitcoin City that we’ll discuss in another video and all the way up to the financial side of things the Bitcoin in particular wallet whether it’s uh in an ETF and with a custodian essentially underneath that there are several ETFs which are I us of redeeming underlying Bitcoin and they’ve all got their Bitcoin stored with a particular custodian that is a centralization risk in terms of the monetary units the the owners of the data on the uh so-called Excel spreadsheet and on the communication side of things um we discussed the Bitcoin um mining pools and their issuance power but that communication between polls and where the Bitcoin is located there’s other entities such as platforms exchanges um there are still quite a lot of people that have Bitcoin in different sorts of platforms and exchanges and that is a risk to well someone else is custody in your Bitcoin for you now here’s the thing uh the majority of people are not going to self- custody there is systematic inevitabilities of sort of the human side of this where some people just will prefer uh that other people look after their their Bitcoin for them whether it’s because uh you have a a grandparent or a parent that’s just not not interested to manage the security of their own money on their physical persons or you know within their home or uh or on the extreme end of security which is to have a multi signature set up so think of it like some Indiana Jones thing where they have to plug in two keys and turn them at the same time to to access the the gold totem behind the behind the rock uh those sorts of things and on that extreme end if you create a security in environment to protect your Bitcoin to the extreme there are some people that have made all these crazy layers of security protection for their Bitcoin and something went wrong and now they’ve lost it or here in the UK actually someone or the amount of people that they had Bitcoin in a wallet or in a hard drive forgot about it years later and now there’s a hard drive here in the UK in a landfill that’s worth millions or billions of dollars worth of bitcoin on it so um time affords Val to bitcoin that’s the thing um one of the positives actually of when Bitcoin is stolen is this is a danger for people that think that they can steal Bitcoin it’s going to go up forever in terms of its value so the incentive to hunt that person down and and recover that Bitcoin goes up forever so it’s not worth trying to steal Bitcoin because the incentive for people to come and find you only goes up over time so your your risk your benefits versus your risks uh it’s not working for you it was working against you and there’s several different other pieces to this but there’s a lot of focus say on the financial side of this these large uh entities companies black rocks as one example all the other different Financial firms trying to wrap their head around different products markets and services that they are going to offer people to accumulate as much Bitcoin it if you boil it down to the to the uh under the hood observation it’s they’re going to want to accumulate as much Bitcoin as they can under their custody and offer all different lending loaning of financial services and Bitcoin Bonds on the on the government side of things um it it it it to the to the technical level it’s they’re going to hold Bitcoin on your behalf and give you some form of incentives or benefits and tradeoff as to why to why uh it’s worth it uh in terms of the compute side of things um there’s a danger with the cryptography aspect of things with quantum um if there’s an issue with all of the Bitcoin that’s in wallets having a certain amount of data cost and and moving all of that Bitcoin into new Quantum resistant wallets when there’s only a a constrained amount of limit of the amount of data that can move through the blockchain per day at any moment in time um and the volume of data that would have to move through the blockchain is years multiple years worth of transaction um demand that could collapse the uh that could well that could collapse price in the sense that if block rewards in terms of fees were to Skyrocket the production cost of bitcoin for the miners absolutely collapses and then the danger side of the Bitcoin being that if it it’s hard to move because the fee Market’s really expensive and the fees uh are massively rewarding miners it’s this duopoly that there would be lot more lots more mining plugging in which would accelerate the rate of blocks being mined so the the the Bitcoin Network by design has all of these mechanisms that the more you attack it in any way the more it defends itself for example the the China ban is the opposite way around the um when China banned Bitcoin mining half the network literally switched off and what happened is the other half of the network started earning essentially twice as much Bitcoin so that incentive to uh you know half the network was attacked so to speak and the other half got paid twice as much now price did react and if you remember from uh the 20121 ball Market the price went up and had this big dip and then recovered just above the the the all-time high that it had set before and then it went back down uh and back to the production floor where Sam bankman freed tried to suppress the Bitcoin price below 20K uh not knowing that he was contending with the production floor and Bitcoin miners can’t just don’t just buy energy sell Bitcoin that they’ve produced they can also sell energy and buy Bitcoin if the price goes below production which we’ve discussed in a couple of other videos here on the academy um there is going to be several other things such as the AI side of things that uh if Bitcoin is afforded to people but based on their energy and compute efficiency that also extends to the sort of uh codified logic and if AI is a highly effici and highly productive and they have a direct understanding of what Bitcoin is a natively digital form of currency that is self Sovereign to it well AI if if if there is some form of scale of intelligence to these language models which they currently just are uh if there is a scale of intelligence to them and they conceptualize that Bitcoin has a value to hold um we could see a shift as to how much uh Bitcoin is owned by AI agents and Bots and uh you know someone’s someone’s going to code an AI that says try and accumulate as much Bitcoin as you physically can mentally can emotionally can all these sorts of things trick humans in every way you know um not everything’s fair game at this point and uh the overall approach is we want to create incentives that build Prosperity continually building out the energy sector continually making better chips and that just builds a more abundant world for everyone and all of that expansion of these massive sectors hash rate going up raising the difficulty adjustment which raises the the the requirement to crack the next block in the chain because miners are paid to not attack the network let’s get this straight the the one thing that controls issuance power of this form of money is producing blocks and producing blocks you’ve got all this proof of work side of things so we just mentioned AI risk or even the quantum aspect of things continually raising that cost to Brute Force crack the next Block in the chain and it’s the only it’s the only thing that can update the chain is is um and yeah there’s there’s several different risks but the dangers to price specifically um that’s more of a the the the leaving the traditional credit money World side of things and the different uh Financial products markets and services and Wall Street playing their Wall Street games so to speak of uh uh you holding B Bitcoin in one place and shorting it in another and constantly just stop loss hunting the entire Market until they’ve accumulated enough Bitcoin and then just let it naturally naturally grow um and the reason it does that is because the amount of Bitcoin being sold is so minimal the amount of freshly issued Bitcoin from the mining sector is barely 450 Bitcoin per day and multiples of 450 Bitcoin is purchased per day so when the price say is suppressed rest there’s probably something to do with the Futures Market playing games there I think that’s enough for today I hope you enjoyed this video I hope this was quite a broad perspective of different risks to bitcoin there is several others in all different areas uh especially some people are concerned at the amount of uh subsidy per block constantly cutting in half but that does actually raise the the value of Bitcoin because if a miner exchanges quantity of electricity into Bitcoin that creates a pricing system and if he’s getting paid less Bitcoin for the same electricity flip it the other way around that means your Bitcoin the harving essentially doubles the electron value of your Bitcoin and that’s another topic that we’ll go into more detail in other videos that’s enough for today I hope you enjoyed like subscribe send it to the group chat send it to the person that you know that loves Bitcoin the most hates Bitcoin the most and I will see you in the next one goodbye