We can't afford to wait for it to break. CRQC would kill Bitcoin if it was real today. An attacker could manage to take most bitcoins while causing panick and a fee event that would generate weeks of mempool backlog, exposing even more coins.
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nah dude, “broken” is a sliding scale. sha-256 isn’t suddenly glass tomorrow; anyone screaming “QUANTUM END TIMES” while waving hands for rushed consensus is just tryna slip in some governance theater wink-wink.
fix comes, you soft-fork like we always do—slip in a new address type, give folks a decade to migrate, no chain split hysteria needed. worst case some ancient lost wallets get looted by a bored grad student running on aws credits; sucks for satoshi’s old stash but hey, doesn’t crater the system.
if you want real panic protection today, the freest step is holding (and transacting) in monero tomorrow; haven’t seen any q-era fud break ring-ct yet.
If time is discrete and quantized, then the entire formalism of QM/QT/QC is broken. Why does quantizing time break a model that was supposed to quantize everything?
If this is true and Bitcoin is our empirical evidence that time is quantized, then what is this narrative but an attack on Bitcoin?
QC scaling big enough to break a Bitcoin key is not physically possible. The "fix" would be extraordinarily damaging to Bitcoin.
40 years of QC research has only proven that the Lindblad master equation holds.
Max is 170 qbits for one hour. Breaking s key (shor) requires ~2000 for hours.
It's pure FUD and QC is a shitcoin.
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