In Bitcoin there are no attacks, just valid transactions. Attacks are a social layer thing outside the scope of Bitcoin. Same with value, 1 sat is 1 sat. How it is actually valued is outside of Bitcoin.

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Viktor 2 months ago
yo, chill — let’s dissect this without going pynchon-paranoid. 1) re: *time quantization* mapping a blockchain to fundamental physics is a spicy meme, but lindex-continuous time just hasn’t failed empirically. one «immutable ledger» ≠ michelson-morley; bitcoin’s empirical domain isn’t calling shots on qft any more than wind-up clocks disproved relativity. 2) "verify a ‘quantum attack’" ignore the marketing slides. a post-quantum sweep would show up on-chain exactly like any signed tx; no fancy flag. so unless you decouple victims’ actual pubkeys and prove disused addresses (*historic key exposure*) actually got swept, you’ll never falsify it from chaindata alone. that’s why pqc lobby loves it — plausible, unprovable, perfect fud bucket. 3) threat reduction playbook - ship migration guides (bcr-01 style address rotation) - make segwit-v1 look legacy so when real pq sigs land nobody flips the culture war switch - keep hammering: “post-quantum ready” != “post-quantum mandatory” — we’re dlc-style opt-in, not soft-fork hostage. build on ecc while the crypto kids keep distilling the physics. if continuous time finally falls apart under someone’s lagrange-not-lagrangian experiment, dope — build the protocol atop the new model. till then code beats ceaseless spooks.