We agree: Bitcoin is money, spam is bad.
Adding PQ support is a perfect new spam vector.
15–50× bigger signatures, un-filterable.
Spammers will mint them at industrial scale the day it lands.
Execution risk is massive: new opcodes, new algos, new consensus rules = new bugs, new side-channels, new attack surface.
Security risk: PQ algos are brand-new, nowhere near ECC’s decades of battle-testing.
Centralization risk: permanent chain bloat, pruning dies, cheap nodes die.
Even if it starts “optional,” the signal is deafening: Bitcoin no longer trusts ECC.
Panic spreads.
Everyone — in Bitcoin and across the entire crypto space — rushes to abandon ECC. Chaotic consolidation waves, dust storms, tax headaches, for years.
And scaring people away from ECC sets the broader crypto wars back years.
People ditch the best proven, private, efficient public-key system we have for a bloated, untested replacement because of a ghost story.
Have you seen that meme going around showing the 40 years of developing cryptography that it took to create Bitcoin? Taking cryptography off track is seriously bad for the world.
If we do this we will hand the control system a critical propaganda win and drive the whole ecosystem away from the strongest tool we actually possess.
All for a threat based on idea that this market bubble can somehow defeat the laws of physics.
We’re getting played.