The quantum FUD makes no sense to me. The years-months before a private key is stolen, every single piece of traditionally encrypted information (banks, stocks, personal data, etc) would be vulnerable if not already gone.
The financial system as we know it would collapse.
Then, either bitcoins price goes near 0 to reflect the broader market in which case there isn’t even much incentive to steal anyone’s coins, or the market price skyrockets as it serves as the last form of digital property. In the latter case, we’d have a least a little bit of time to prepare quantum proof keys.
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>banks, stocks, personal data, etc would be vulnerable
Well no, because most banks are already well on the road to post-quantum. Most major browsers support hybrid PQC handshakes. Some larger banks have enabled this on their public-facing web servers. The backend cryptographic elements for most major banks are already PQC, and no major bank is going to non-PQC keys for any new internal project in 2026.
As for personal info, Signal has migrated already (they started some years ago, being smart). Google drive is already protected by hybrid PCQ and well on the way to full.
Just because the Bitcoin is by and large in denial, doesn't mean everyone else is.