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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: J. Lopp's Post-Quantum Migration BIP
by
Pmalek
on 19/07/2025, 15:28:50 UTC
The moment i see Jameson Lopp as one of the BIP author, i'm not surprised about details of the phase B. After all, he already wrote blog post Against Allowing Quantum Recovery of Bitcoin.
He is one of the authors of the BIP proposal but there are five more. So they all agree on those points in Phase B.

I don't know what to think. It feels like choosing between two evils, hoping you picked the lesser one. Allow satoshi-era coins to be stolen if a strong-enough quantum computer becomes a reality. That would cause a devastating affect on the network. The alternative looks even worse: freeze the coins and effectively take them out of circulation for the greater good of the network and again destroying trust in Bitcoin and censoring it.