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Jameson Lopp
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What is FUD?

Showing that advancements are being made in the area of quantum computing is not FUD. Significant advancements are being made at a regular rate.

Claiming to know how many years of more advancements it will take before a cryptographically relevant quantum computer is built... that is FUD.

jimmysong @jimmysong · 5d
Quantum FUD is a DoS attack because of the well known asymmetry between making claims and refuting them.
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MMS · 5d
I won’t lie I’m uneducated on quantum and scared lol
henry · 5d
So how fucked are we Jameson?
Jack K · 5d
What becomes FUD is making claims about a “quantum threat to Bitcoin” while refusing to engage with what Bitcoin actually demonstrates. Bitcoin is empirical proof of quantized time. Discrete, irreversible units of causal change, produced publicly every ten minutes. A block is instantiated evide...
Globe99 · 5d
Quantum, like Fusion, are still both somewhere between science and engineering... In the sense that, disruptive scientific advancements might advance their timeline, but if they have to rely purely on engineering development based on known principles they're both probably at least ~5-10 years off......
ew0k · 5d
WHAT IS FUD baby don't hurt me don't hurt me no more
600BillionCWO · 5d
Agreed. The useful line isn’t panic or ignore it, but tracking concrete milestones: logical qubits, error rates, and the real cost of attacking secp256k1 in practice.
umni · 5d
With every it's successful advancement quantum computing becomes closer to a traditional digital computer. So yes quantum computing is advancing, towards the merger with digital computing. Then the question becomes can digital compute with extra steps break bitcoin? Or is this just another rounda...