While we cannot make this decision on behalf of a theoretical future Bitcoin community, I think burning vulnerable bitcoin is inevitable.

First of all, I think it’s the right decision. In a world where a CRQC (cryptographically relevant quantum computer) is on the short-term horizon, these coins will not remain with their original owners. No amount of hopium will solve that. Instead your options are only (a) freeze or (b) let some CRQC owner eventually steal them. I definitely prefer (a).

Luckily, it doesn’t have to be a lot of coins - any addresses which were created from a standard seed phrase + HD derivation can be recovered with a QC-safe ZK proof. It’s only the very very old coins (or more esoteric wallets) that would be frozen.

Finally, it’s worth pointing out that I think this is inevitable. In a theoretical future where a CRQC is on the horizon, both forks will exist. The market will ultimately decide which bitcoin they value more - one with an extra million coins of supply as the CRQC owners steal lost coins or the one without. I cannot imagine the market preferring the former.

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Quantum computing should crack a Bitcoin private key and actually move it before anyone panics and does something stupid. But stupid is as stupid does.

There used to be a time where you could send 100 Bitcoin around the world and nobody gave a f...

I liked that time better than now.

The following photography is one of my favorites because of all the symbolism it holds within it:

The super happy dad:

The godparents brought gold chains as a gift for the babies and asked the priest to bless them:

#photostr #photography #plebs #plebchain

Kinda?

And then we took a photography with the circular light modifier. This effect is highly demanded by my clients because it looks very cool:

#photostr #photography #plebs #plebchain

I’d never vote for a republican. Ever.

Just saying...

#IKITAO #AvaMemes

Taylor Greene is out. Bongino out. His chief of staff is clearly on her way out doing that interview with Vanity Fair. These are top allies moving away from Trump. If Jack Smith gets a public congressional hearing it’s gonna be the end for Donny boy. Anyone that’s been counting on Trump to boost BTC better pray he hurries…

LFG

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No peak this cycle.

If Charlie had lived in Europe he’d still be alive.

Because he’d be in prison.

The attacks on free speech cannot be allowed to stand any longer.

How so?

Can you grab him by the pussy? 😂

We are being governed by kindergardeners

Charlie Kirk’s assassination is the turning point. There is no going back.

Quitting X this week.

Gonna leave 600 followers, don't know if that actually mean something.

Got 25 here now.

Want to build something better and on a better platform.

Onwards to new horizons

Guess around 200, maybe more. Hoping for the same, or more, engagement with real people here.

FUCK THIS

GM #nostr!

Greatly disappointed in Ledger. Been a customer since 2021. Bought the Ledger Nano S and that hardware is really resilient. Works flawlessly.

Now they decide to phase out and stop supporting. This is BS. I refuse to continue buying hardware wallet and do the same shit as Apple that makes their devices obsolete in order to sell more.

I think a simple hand self generated seed phrase imported on an older Air gap / offline Android and side loaded with Electrum would do the trick. I’ll just export the pub key and sign transaction with the phone.

I’ll put the seed phrase on a few plates and keep them at different places.

What’s better than that?

This is bullshit

I do send people sat here too

I’ve send up to 500k sat since I started Damus who would I hold responsible for scamming me off my 500k sat

Y’all are hateful in here that’s why I want to change my platform to a music and entertainment account cos I’m sick and tired of this note been tag to like I’m the only one asking for sat in #Nostr

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Where are you seeing this?

A lot of conservatives - including much of his base - are totally fed up with Trump.

I’m living a nice and wholesome life

I wake up every morning without setting any alarm and do what I love all day long

But I’m still pissed off that I joined a revolution that never happened

Everything we used to say that would happen with Bitcoin went down the drain

Now it’s a stonk, just an instrument to speculate on in hopes of making more US dollars

It didn’t progress towards becoming a currency that competes with the dollar

It didn’t progress technically to encourage freedom fighters around the world to use it

Outside of making more dollars, there’s nothing that it does that other networks do better

It doesn’t have a killer use case anymore

The user experience sucks compared to fintech

All we have is hope that the ship will eventually turn around

But even the OGs who joined for ideological reasons seem to be selling

So who remains to defend the principles of the early days?

Who will still want to end the Fed when the Fed is making you more US dollars?

I don’t even see my friends around anymore, they either turned into insufferable suits or else they left the space

It’s depressing, really. This is not what many of us signed up for and I feel deceived

I spent nearly a decade promoting Bitcoin as freedom tech, but now the FBI is allegedly happier when their targets use bitcoin instead of cash (as suggested by Peter Thiel)

I feel sorry for some of the people I onboarded, who used custodial Lightning wallets that probably rugged them

I sometimes feel like a fraud who pushed false advertisement

But ultimately, I wish more bitcoiners demanded a change. Anything that lets developers build cool stuff and new use cases.

CTV, CAT, BIP300, I don’t even care at this point. Just push the boundaries, make Bitcoin technologically exciting again.

The bankers might fuck us, the old cypherpunks might sell out, but at least give the rest of us some cool toys to play with.

But no, “there’s no consensus”

Fuxking bullshit