You mean segwit was a covert attack due to the discount which started being abused after taproot? This would seem like a very long term attack plan indeed

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yes. exploiting the non-monetary capabilities of the scripts is a major factor in how they acquire control. they recruited the whole shitcoin crowd to do the ordinals and all that shit. and taproot leaks the pubkey before it is spent, so that opens a large state sized attacker to steal the largest UTXOs, whether or not those were from lost keys, they will eventually break satoshi's keys, i'm pretty sure. probably the fud for that cycle (4 or 8 years down the track) will be that satoshi is the government but i would guess it will be a quantum supercomputer. i did the math on it a few months ago and if you focus that on the biggest UTXOs, somewhere near anywhere over 8000 bitcoin (whole bitcoin lol) it's at least paid for with the ability to dump that on the market to artificially stoke the fear/hope cycle.