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Quantum FUD is a DoS attack because of the well known asymmetry between making claims and refuting them.
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Chris Krause · 5d
Are there even Quantum computers?
Bitpower · 5d
Still most people I meet have no clue what money actually is and what distinguishes Bitcoin from crypto. No fucking clue they have. And if I tell them they are like 🤢
Jack K · 5d
If that’s true Jimmy, the we need to be the ones making the claims. Bitcoin is empirical proof of quantized time. Each block is a discrete, irreversible unit of causal change. If that is true, then any formalism that relies on continuous time or treats time as infinitely divisible without a phy...
Jameson Lopp · 5d
LLMs rebalance the asymmetry. I was able to have an LLM analyze the recent papers and point out which of the assumptions they rely upon were the weakest and explain why. Only took a couple minutes.
BTCrevolutionary · 5d
How do you know it’s FUD? It’s was published by Google. They could give two shits about Bitcoin.
nixb · 5d
I have a feeling that a Google engineer will be fired, just like Timnit Gebru.
Time Chain · 5d
Quantum is no real threat. Anyone who says otherwise has a shitcoin or ocean front property in Arizona to sell you.
Hard Money Herald · 5d
The DoS frame is precise. Refutation requires engaging the actual technical parameters — hash rate, key sizes, attack timelines — while the claim only needs to say 'quantum is advancing.' The asymmetry is built in: defenders have to be exactly right, attackers just have to be directionally plaus...
Shattuck · 5d
Otherwise known as Brandolini's law.