Made me wonder if AI bot…
That said, a very reasonable possible future would be for crqc to exist and be able to attack exposed pubkeys but not anyone behind a hash (p2pkh, p2sh, p2wsh, etc)…thereby effectively forking bitcoin…you’d have people supporting qr-bitcoin and bitcoin “classical”
And regardless of quantum, eventually people will decide bitcoin isn’t for dead people and want to soft fork to destroy or hard fork to reclaim coins not spent over a time period longer than a human lifespan…
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@Jameson Lopp wrote about some of these scenarios:
There are also a bunch of proposed commit and reveal schemes. My prediction is that if they exist bitcoin will tank in price but recover with secure outputs. Will be a good time for new people to get in.

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Against Allowing Quantum Recovery of Bitcoin
An argument in favor of burning bitcoin in vulnerable addresses to prevent funds from being taken by those who win the quantum computing race.