You do realize that it is most likely that you would have lost your coins in either case since this is about weakened encryption? There's just a difference between the community drawing out to a consensus in which coins get "destroyed" or a hacker exploiting the weakened encryption only to take away your coins. You'd have to choose the lesser of two evils.
What an idiotic thing to say. You're still ranting about how your bitcoind 0.7 won't sync?
This is a completely separate issue from Theymos' call to preemptively destroy old coins sent to pub key before dastardly haxors grab them with their quantum computers.
I`m not talking about the theymos paper, but about the bitcoin classic people that want a more invasive approach.
BTW Wtf is all with this quantum computer bullshit scaremongering? Do you guys realize that there wont be a quantum computer for the foreseeable future. And in my opinion there wont be any ever.
The best there is is a 5 qubit setup (which can barely do basic calculations), at near 0 Kelvin degree, and the quantum interference scales up exponentially with the heat.
Therefore the difficulty of putting together a more qubit setup scales exponentially, since the heat entropy will just make the setup crash as any small heat fluctuation will just make the quantum state decohere.
How are you cooling the atoms down to 0 Kelvin? Its literally impossible, and if nothing else, then the background radiation of the universe will just destroy any entangled state eventually. It will be impossoble to built complex qubit setups.
Not even the intergalactic vaacum of the universe is 0 Kelvin, or close to it, so how do you reach that on Earth with all the radiation that is going on here?
In my opinion there wont be ever a quantum computer, but even if it will be, its not in the near future, so folks really need to stup this quantum scaremongering.
You are operating under a number of assumptions, first and foremost the idea that that which is released publically ("the best there is") is where the technology really is at. The way I perceive it, quantum coherence and quantum computers will lead to free energy, and may already have under the dark budget of the
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There are real improvements that can be made to Bitcoin with a hardfork.
If the community could come to agreement on it, it would help Bitcoin compete in the near term at least.
Are you talking about things from the HF wishlist (Wiki)? What would you prefer to be included in a HF?
I think what Luke Jr wants to be included is a small Christian prayer written into every block and every seven days all the worlds mining resources diverted to attack an altcoin.
The nice thing about that is that, as far as I can tell, he doesn't mix his religious convictions with his vision for Bitcoin.