I understand it's very different and that it isn't likely to replace non-quantum computing in our lifetimes, if ever. It doesn't need to replace general computing to threaten public key crypto. It just needs to scale up in qubits and preferably remain stable. There's a lot of very smart people working only on this and with basically unlimited funding. What's commercially available is likely not even the bleeding edge, given the intelligence applications.

I'll agree that CRQC it's not absolutely inevitable. However, nobody can claim it's impossible either. It would be hard to even prove it doesn't already exist somewhere.

There's already relevant non-QC attacks against P2PKH. If they're not moving them to SegWit, they're already at risk. If a fork is propsed and they still don't move, that's on them. I would like to know how many coins/wallets are affected, if anyone can answer that.

Yes it can. Satoshi Nakamoto disproved the quantum fud on 1/3/2009 by demonstrating a physical system in which time is discrete, quantized, and enforced in blocks through irreversible work.

Satoshi made time observable as an object. The implications simply aren’t widely understood yet, even by the Bitcoin community.

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Why don't you protest against the IDF? They killed ten thousands of people, children included.

If a fork does happen, coins can be split by including >83byte OP_RETURNs in transactions.

Which would in turn create fee pressure and thus incentive for miners to mine the non-UASF chain.

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That too!

If I were a sophisticated nation state actor intent on controlling BTC:

I would be in favor of Corev30 changes, so that it would be easy to SPAM BTC with CSAM, create/enforce regulations so that most sane people would stop running nodes.

Centralization achieved, BTC as freedom money dies.

The debate boils down to: Is the bitcoin network openly supportive or openly hostile to arbitrary data storage?

So there’s no middle ground for you?

You’re saying we must act on potential problems now—before they exist—because once we see them, it’ll be too late?

No.

You anticipate problems, draft possible solutions, and keep them ready. If an issue actually emerges, the community reaches consensus and implements the best fix.

What you’re proposing is gaslighting—a trojan horse for more “fixes” to problems that don’t exist.

The good news? I’m running Knots—a real solution to a real problem: a rogue core team trying to strong-arm and gaslight the network into compliance.

You’re solving nothing. There’s no problem to fix. Either focus on real issues or find hypothetical ones that actually matter.

This is so fucked up. Israel now targets Yemen govt 2000km away because of Hamas, Fatah, Palestine, Houthis, Iran or who exactly?

How come 99% of population doesn't want war yet the recent events implicate big wars breaking out.

Wars should simply be prohibited. And any politician crossing other country border without their concent decapitated.

America is ranked 3rd in gun violence out of 193 countries.

So clearly, America is incredibly unsafe and dangerous…right?

However this is where it gets interesting. If you were to remove Detroit, LA, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Chicago; America would fall to 189 out 193.

Ironically these five cities are liberal run with some of the most strictest gun laws.

Perfect example of how politicians can ruin a city.

What has Saifedean to do with Ben Wehrman?

Why did you even type this?

What you said reminded me of what the great novelist Raymond Chandler said in 1954: “Los Angeles has nothing for me any more. It’s only a question of time until a Gentile has to wear an armband there.”

A very warm welcome to you!!!

We need many more pro Palestine voices - here as well 🇵🇸

A lot of Jewish people aren’t even Semitic at all. DNA tests are illegal in Israel for a few different reasons.

There are so many things I could point out, but I'll just pick one. In the video (approximately in the middle) you mentioned this global flood happens repeatedly about every 6-7 thousand years. There is apparently no archaeological evidence of this. How do you explain that?

"By harming a horse, you decrease his excellence. Thus, by harming a person, you decrease their excellence."

Why does the US have to pay the price for his life?

There are literally hundreds of millions of people whose lives could be saved with US money. Is the US obligated to save every one of them?

how crazy it is that a tor service is accessible from anywhere in the world in a few seconds and with zero config. no dns, tls, port forwarding or any of that shit

Does he deserve to die though, without trial? Are we in the middle ages or something?

Good luck in life with those assumptions 🤣

I'll give you something to chew on, it's up to you to draw the right conclusions:

"Why do shops reduce prices and give discounts all the time?"

And please spare me from your results, I'm not interested in spending more time teaching basic economics.