I'm shocked by what I'm reading. If you freeze or burn Bitcoin UTXOs that you merely presume to be lost, you fundamentally undermine Bitcoin's core promise of censorship resistance. This causes irrepa...
You’re confusing a core principle of bitcoin for the way the core principle was written down. It’s (obviously) a core principle of Bitcoin that coins never be frozen or stolen by any action aside from a mistake by their owners. However, that’s not the question we face if a CRQC becomes reality. The coins *will* be stolen or frozen, there is no other option [1]. In the face of that, you either pick that they be stolen by some QC startup, or you pick that they be frozen by fork. Also…
[1] There is actually one other option. If the keys for the coins were created with a seedphrase-based wallet, we can allow them to be recovered by their owners, but *only* if we freeze vulnerable spend modes!
[1] There is actually one other option. If the keys for the coins were created with a seedphrase-based wallet, we can allow them to be recovered by their owners, but *only* if we freeze vulnerable spend modes!
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