Thoughtful essay from Nic Cater on why Bitcoiners should care about quantum computing risks even though they are quite low for the foreseeable future.
https://murmurationstwo.substack.com/p/bitcoin-and-the-quantum-problem-part-47f
It’s surreal watching OG Bitcoiners now insist Bitcoin is “broken” and must be “fixed.”
You acting as if a fractional-reserve ontology of physics, a theory built on unmeasured, multiply-claimed “states”, could threaten a system rooted in real conservation, real energy, real proof.
If fractional-reserve accounting can’t produce sound money, why would fractional-reserve physics produce sound computation?
Superposition is just as real as the energy that goes into hashing a new block.
Superposition isn’t a physical coexistence of states, it’s a discretized potential, an unmined field of possibilities. These states don’t “exist” as a computable substrate; they are simply the unresolved entropy of the system. Until energy is spent to collapse that entropy into a single outcome, nothing is real, nothing is measurable, nothing is “at once.” They have not yet been mined, meaning they have not yet been measured. Physics has mistaken the mempool for the ledger.
