Sigh
I guess a simple answer to that question is that, it's provably scarce and not capable of being issued unilaterally, so it's a sound money, with similar monetary characteristics to gold, just in digital form.
Just renewed my yearly purple membership!
Never forget 
Came up with a short agenda for tonight's BitDevs
https://surmount.notion.site/BitDevs-Jan-2-2025-16f7aa0dd975800d986df8818f3edc86
I'm literally working on the problem and this headline is such trash nostr:note1ze7ar32gy9vlu8z6vclykl7lfyn50zh60aklvka7ppdst8rajzgqs5g27p
Yes, you are both right; but Grover's is much harder to run than Shor's, so signatures are the most vulnerable, then 160-bit hashes. 256-bit hashes are very very hard, and might require a truly enormous computer to be competitive with ASICs. But once those achieve advantage, miners will just upgrade and in 2 weeks or so things will be alright again.
Super linked to a draft that was six months old. Most of this criticism no longer applies and was resolved through review.
Please do not tag me in this guy's replies again. I don't care for his attitude.
P2QRH just got its BIP number: BIP-360 
I was just using this today with a Rust library called nakamoto
If we were to ever do business with aliens, they would be using Bitcoin 
If they just paid the ranchers, I think they'd get no complaints 