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bitcoin has added new address and signature types several times already. in the event a credible attack succeeds (presumably at a cost of millions of dollars) it will be trivial to justify adding VDOO or other compact PQ signatures.

until then, it's hype. until there is a proof of concept verifiably demonstrated in the wild (and it must be done such that there is no way the secret was accessible to the people running the machine, or it would look like a hoax), it's irrelevant.

no proof, not verified. disregard.
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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 4mo ago

also, distributed systems are not quantum anything. they are simply a collection of protocols and applications that speak them that make it possible for multiple replicas of the system, or any components of it, to seem like a single, unified "von neumann machine" with atomic state, with the caveat that usually there is a propagation delay due to light speed. distributed systems are the multi-computer version of concurrrent execution in a single computer.

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Jack K 4mo ago

Yes agreed, the distributed nature of Bitcoin does not make it “quantum”.

Bitcoin was equally as quantum at genesis when Satoshi was running the only node versus today when we have arguably the most amount of nodes.

I don’t think quantum systems can achieve further complexity without become a distributed system. We can clearly see this with biology.