BTC hashrate rises over time. The reasons for this should be obvious, but basically the incentives and the difficulty adjustment make this inevitable over time. I have explained to you before (and others) - you can go on and on trying to delay buying BTC because of theoretical risks, or you can just buy and hodl and thrive. These concerns, doubts and fears etc about BTC (and indeed any novel technology) are what provides you with the opportunity. Also, ask yourself, always in cases like this, if you are simply fooling yourself by thinking you know of a risk that has not already been priced into the market. (If anything, such risks are overblown, and overbaked into the price - quantum FUD being just the latest).
ETH has potential (just not at this current price, in my view). I will buy it in the $200-$500 range, if the price ever adjusts to that level. I believe that over time, the market always adjusts to fair value - so, I will wait. This has been the key to my success in the past.
Hashrate rising over time isn’t inevitable — it’s conditional on miner economics, price, energy costs, and regulatory environment. Difficulty adjustment preserves liveness, not a growing security budget.
And “the market priced this in” is unfalsifiable. Markets routinely underprice long-horizon structural risks until they become acute. There’s no possible outcome that can disprove it:
If the price goes up >>> “See? The risk was priced in.”
If the price goes down >>> “See? The risk materialized, so the market was right to price it in.”
Regarding quantum FUD:
https://forklog.com/en/bitcoin-developer-warns-of-quantum-threat-from-intelligence-agencies/Bitcoin Developer Warns of Quantum Threat from Intelligence AgenciesBitcoin unprepared for quantum computer threats, warns developer.
20.02.2026 ForkLog
The first cryptocurrency is unprepared for a future where government agencies, using ultra-fast quantum computers, could crack its cryptography. This view was shared by developer Hunter Beest at the ETHDenver conference.
“Today, we are completely unprepared for the consequences. It’s a multidimensional problem, and you only realize its true scale when you start to delve into it,” he said. According to Beest, the main players in the race are not tech giants but “spies”—the NSA and the Chinese military. Quantum computers, costing billions of dollars, are useful not only for stealing bitcoins. They can crack RSA—a widely used encryption standard, granting access to other countries’ classified data.
The problem is that the new technology is not yet capable of solving practical tasks, which hinders convincing many developers of the seriousness of the threat, the expert emphasized.
In December, one of the key Bitcoin Core contributors, Luke Dashjr, stated:
“The quantum threat is not real. Bitcoin has far more serious problems.”In February, BIP 360 was included in Bitcoin’s codebase. Developers are actively working on this proposal.
🚨 BITCOIN QUANTUM UPDATE:
Developers advanced BIP-360, laying groundwork for post-quantum protection.
The proposal removes a Taproot key-path feature that could expose public keys to future quantum attacks.
Not activated yet but the defense planning has begun.
Bitcoin is… pic.twitter.com/qEXapNeFZT
— Merlijn The Trader (@MerlijnTrader) February 16, 2026
