"Be smart now" is useless advice for a protocol-level existential threat.

We have ~4M BTC sitting in exposed pubkeys. When Q-Day hits, the governance debate on what to do with that supply (Burn? Miner bribe? QC bounty?) will tear the social consensus apart.

We need to shrink the blast radius. If we can move modern HD-wallet coins from the "Totally Doomed" bucket to the "Recoverable via Sweep" bucket, the problem becomes manageable.

It is much easier for the network to agree on burning/abandoning Satoshi’s ancient coins than it is to write off 25% of the supply held by active users. We need a reactive path to minimize the casualty list, or the economic shock kills your "safe" coins too.

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