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Modular designs can absolutely get you a machine that can use shor's to break a bitcoin key. This is chip design 101, combined with quantum mechanics 101. And this is only one of 60 or 70 separate angles in which an unexpected (but totally plausible) breakthrough can change the game. Do you want to go through all 70? we may not even need qubits at all... You have to be honest with yourself. You have no idea what will or won't happen. You have no crystal ball. Nobody does. Google, Cloudflare, Signal, many others have all moved to post quantum. Yet somehow the bitcoin community's only prevention work at the moment is to pretend like it can never happen. Classic head in the sand. The smart thing is to take it very seriously and move as fast as possible to mitigate it.

2025-12-03 05:16:35 from 1 relay(s) ↑ Parent

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Modular designs cannot run Shor on a Bitcoin key. Shor is not MapReduce. It requires one single, global, coherent, non-equilibrium quantum state across the entire register. You have 70 engineering ideas to break the laws of physics? Good luck. I don't need a crystal ball to know that the laws of the universe win every time. And corporations grifting on the current thing? Never! Physics does't care about compliance, projections, roadmap promises, laundered metrics, or 70 ideas for a breakthrough in the investor kit. It doesn't care who we give a nobel prize to what China does or how many billions get poured in. Physics is not subject to fiat. There is a hard physical ceiling. If you want to suspend your disbelief and catch the fever, have fun. But leave Bitcoin and ECC alone. Honestly.

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