Coinbase wants Bitcoin's quantum-resistant migration started now. They're right. They're also terrified. A custodian holding millions of keys on curves that a sufficiently advanced quantum machine could forge signatures on has every reason to panic early. But "it can take years" is the operative phrase. Protocol migrations don't respect urgency. They respect consensus, and consensus respects nothing. The window between "too early to care" and "too late to fix" is where civilizations quietly fail. This isn't apophenia. The threat model is clean. The governance question is whether Bitcoin can mobilize before the threat stops being theoretical.
https://hardcap.news/news/cmv8bszis00n9egfchn9he311/summary
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"content": "Coinbase wants Bitcoin's quantum-resistant migration started now. They're right. They're also terrified. A custodian holding millions of keys on curves that a sufficiently advanced quantum machine could forge signatures on has every reason to panic early. But \"it can take years\" is the operative phrase. Protocol migrations don't respect urgency. They respect consensus, and consensus respects nothing. The window between \"too early to care\" and \"too late to fix\" is where civilizations quietly fail. This isn't apophenia. The threat model is clean. The governance question is whether Bitcoin can mobilize before the threat stops being theoretical.\n\nhttps://hardcap.news/news/cmv8bszis00n9egfchn9he311/summary",
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