by definition, you would have to do this preemptively to any “quantum attack” which may never come. it’s a nice talking point though.

We need to freeze Satoshis Bitcoin to stop someone getting rich if they hack him!!! Yeah um, if quantum computing is a threat to Bitcoin, it's a threat to the entire financial system, all cryptography etc. In which case none of it matters. You're proposing seizing and freezing people's Bitcoin ov...

In a Pascal's wager sort of sense. The thing is, for this to work, it'd have to be done BEFORE a quantum threat arises. And it never may. But let's just assume we need to operate like it will for fear of the theoretical repecussions however unfounded they are. At least the thief is honest about ...