freezing or seizing old addresses as part of a ‘quantum hard fork’ is a non starter
never going to happen, nor should it
quantum risk is theoretical, any protocol changes should do no harm
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Seize deez
I don’t understand what’s so bad about a quantum computer eventually being able to grave rob old addresses.
Such is life. Those that have their keys will upgrade their wallets, and people will have incentives to build quantum computers to grave rob abandoned ones.
"Welcome to bitcoin where property rights are respected. Except in cases of (quantum) emergency. Now do this upgrade or else we'll sick Googles fake quantum computer on Satoshi's stacks."
Agreed.
“Quantum Computer” risk is an invisible boogey-man, and invisible bogies are the bread ‘n’ butter of 3-letter agencies.
Bitcoin is always a litmus test.
Don’t change it until it’s proven it can be broken.
OSSIFY.
My understanding is that SHA-256 is weakened by quantum algorithms, but not to an extent that is significant in practice. The situation is not the same as for RSA. It is not automatic that if we build powerful quantum computers, bitcoin breaks. An algorithmic breakthrough is needed. Worth thinking about, but there is already a risk that people break cryptography with classical algorithms. Am I understanding this correctly?
people don’t want ossify because lazy
if quantum is not a scam (i think it is) and if it ever poses a real threat to bitcoin then bitcoin just dies that day and a new fork (or many new forks) will be born and we keep pushing...
So many new people in Bitcoin and here we are…debunking all the FUD all over again. Jesus Christ, do people read anymore? So much content out there on quantum! Watching Antman and The Wasp: Quantumania for starters.
Do no harm plz
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If protecting Bitcoin requires violating self-custody or rewriting history, it’s not protection. It’s abandonment of first principles.
feels like this would be a mistake and antithetical to base principles
Bitcoin is under a sustained attack from higher places.
Absolutely- you always correctly preach that everybody has to think about their own threat model in Bitcoin. This would include the OG address holders as well.
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