By the time quantum computing can actually crack encryption, every bank, government database, and password-protected system will be in chaos—not just Bitcoin. The upside for BTC is that any quantum attack would be super obvious, and the network could quickly rally to implement quantum-safe encryption. Stolen BTC would need to be dumped fast, making it somewhat trackable (though not reversible), and miners would move swiftly to patch the vulnerability. Meanwhile, traditional institutions would be stuck in bureaucratic quicksand, taking way longer to adapt. I'd imagine we'll get to feel the pressure on other institutions first and pivot early without much risk at all. Likely no hard fork necessary, just an agreed upon quantum-immune layer wrapped on top of the protocol. BTC University has some killer takes on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDiAgatA9MU

@Christopher McBraya BTC, yes, crypto, no! 🔥🔥😄

@William Renner

@Arthur Fox This guy gets it. 🔥

People truly can't wrap their heads around how much stored productive value is lost from the money printing that has gone on for the last century. If people's economic value was preserved through the level of invention and innovation that's happened since The Fed's 1913 creation, we would be so wealthy it's relatively incomprehensible. You can't burn everyone's money in forever wars and international meddling if you can't print yourself infinite free money like they have. As BTC adoption increases all this evil crap gets choked out of the system, and our true economic value will be reflected in BTC as the first truly scarce, fungible resource to have ever been discovered it is. I truly think $1M BTC is a way low ball; its actual scaling value will be obvious to everyone later but is still mind-bending to grok from here.

Dude, it's so refreshing to hear you say that. SO FEW people get it. It's sad but more sats for us, I guess.