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Marty Bent
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The bitcoin quantum FUD is just another iteration of “can the devs do something?!”

A bunch of LARPing by people not close to protocol development who have overlooked that “the devs” have been talking about and researching solutions to this “problem” for years.
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Cincy · 8w
it’s a psyop
Ryan Miersma · 8w
Total FUD, nothing serious or to be concerned about in the near term but it’s all over X
BTC-Satan · 8w
No, way, the devs are too busy turning Bitcoin into BSV.
Benking · 8w
this were an urgent existential threat, it wouldn’t be discovered on Twitter in 2025.
allen · 8w
it’s also the game theoretically perfect FUD because it will never actually happen, hence the theoretical threat will never go away, hence the materially conflicted can get research grants and engagement farm forever. it’s “the climate crisis” for cryptography nerds.
Tim Bouma · 8w
There a lot of self-interest going on. - The academics use PQC FUD for more research grants. - The vendors use PQC FUD to sow panic and uncertainty (just buy my stuff and you’ll be ok). - Governments use PQC FUD force compliance (to deal with us, use our PQC algorithms that have backdoors you...
Publius Pseudis · 8w
The problem isn’t the devs the problem is the social consensus.