I’m just gonna quickly weigh-in on this so you can decide whether you want to talk to me anymore:
If you think we need to freeze coins to prevent them from being stolen you are retarded, gfy.
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Freezing coins is definitely a slippery slope … and I don’t think quantum is a threat this decade.
It doesn’t even matter if it is a threat today. My position is exactly the same.
What's this about freezing coins?
A cohort of people believe that p2pk addresses (satoshis eg) should be frozen as part of a fork because they are susceptible to being stolen by a quantum-enabled actor. I think that is retarded and an obvious violation of the property rights guaranteed by bitcoin.
Thank you for the update John. That's very retarded indeed.
afaict argument is that it compromises Bitcoin security guarantees to allow quantum "mining" of vulnerable addresses.
"fork or die" ensures that security is consistent.
not advocating for it, because I prefer the Wild West.
but that's a plausible argument.
The solution is to give people the ability to opt-in to quantum resistant addresses, not decide unilaterally for people.
Couldn't have said it better so stealing his words 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️