Boneh predicts Bitcoin and Ethereum data will survive until year 3000
Dan Boneh · The Future of NFTs · May 18, 2021 · at 5:55
Dan Boneh, Stanford cryptography professor, discusses the underlying permanence of public blockchains during an a16z panel on NFTs.
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“So I think that the Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains are going to be with humanity now forever, you know, in the year 3000, you know, the era of Futurama, we're still going to be looking at the Ethereum and Bitcoin blockchains. Maybe they won't be called that, you know, maybe instead of ETH two, we'll be on to ETH 15. But the data on that we put on them today will still be available even in the year 3000.”
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