Quote from: Satofan44 on July 24, 2025, 05:25:49 PM

Quote from: Medusah on July 24, 2025, 02:20:08 PM

Quote from: Satofan44 on July 24, 2025, 12:07:13 PM

Am I missing something or did you not read the original post? That is the key point of the whole proposal. To be precise you can't force someone to migrate per say but by disallowing the spending of previous signature types you are in practice doing just that, forcing them to migrate or lose their coins.

Yes, apologies. What I meant is that some of us are not in favor of a "mandatory migration", but rather an optional one. To not freeze any coin, but leave them on the fate of their security.

All clear now! Yes I agree with you even if I mentioned a last resort compromise in my previous proposal. It really depends on how this "war" will play out within the community. If there happens to be a majority NO to any kind of freezing or mandatory migration, I would not consider any compromise at all with those that propose these things. Let them fork themselves away to their own "Bitcoin Quantum Safe", they take the the BQS ticker. Grin

FWIW the community can accept addition of new QC-resistant cryptography and address alone, but later reject follow-up change/fork they don't like. In past, SegWit got activated but SegWit2x never got activated[1].

Quote from: stwenhao on Today at 07:55:45 AM

Before anyone start thinking about making any forks, new things should be tested first. Which means for example deploying some kind of "quantum testnet", where people could see quantum-resistant algorithms, try to break them classically, measure how many transactions can be confirmed, and how quickly spammers will post JPEGs by using "OP_CHECKQUANTUMSIG OP_NOT" or similar scripts, and so on.

Looking at past, Bitcoin developer already does such thing. For example, there were test network for SegWit called SegNet[2]. I don't remember whether there were dedicated test network for Taproot or other changes though.

[1] https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/now-segwit2x-hard-fork-has-really-failed-activate
[2] https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/segregated-witness-deployed-on-new-bitcoin-testnet-segnet-1452277172.