Calling for a quantum fork TODAY would clearly be contentious.
Everything I'm proposing is PLANNING so that we have well thought out options to choose from in the future IF quantum computing progresses to the point of being a real concern.
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I think you'll find burning / seizing old coins to be a Rubicon most bitcoiners are unwilling to cross.
In terms of number of humans, maybe.
In terms of economic majority of holding entities, I point you to Saylor as a prime example of how I expect whales to act.
I'm on team human.
That's fine, but Bitcoin is not a democracy in which human votes are counted.
oh OK, who's running all the nodes? ETF's? BTC Treasury companies?
Whoever wants to.
people already think youre a sell out. stop trying to prove them right. bitcoin is for all people. not just billionaires.
A natural consequence of building a huge audience is that some of them will hate you as a result of your words or actions. Some people hating me doesn't bother me in the slightest.
Bitcoin is for anyone, though it's clearly not for everyone, nor does it operate via any known governance model. If you're bothered by the power distribution of entities in Bitcoin, you're always free to leave.
you'll fork off before I "leave"
"let's do a hardfork cause Saylor wants to"
"you're free to leave"
dude we won't have to leave. all the suitcoiners will leave and we plebs can just run core v29 forever lol
I wonder why Bitcoin has so little uptake.
None of these are hard forks.
Yes, you're free to continue running whatever node software you wish.
Saylor is no economic entity, he produces nothing and renders no services. My barber around the corner has more economic activity than Saylor.
how tf will you confiscate coins without a hard fork
Disallowing spending from specific script types is a restriction of the existing rule set, which is a soft fork. Read my BIP for details.
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so when you said people would buy my bitcoin if I didn't send it to a new quantum resistant address, that was just a figure of speech? cause the coins would be burned forever right?
No, I thought it was blindingly obvious that if you intend to sell your coins in order to protest a mandatory migration, you'd need to send them to an exchange BEFORE the migration deadline.
who's selling? we can keep using our coins after you split off, they just wont be compatible.