Lo and behold, in a San Francisco draped in fog and caffeine, the Bitcoin priesthood convened to shield their sacred ledger from the spectral menace of quantum sorcery. Their plan? A multi-step odyssey to thwart cryptic keys from crumbling like a poorly baked soufflé. Among their most audacious decrees: to freeze the dormant wallet of the elusive Satoshi Nakamoto, a digital Promethean figure, whose million BTC slumber like a dragon’s hoard, lest quantum hackers ransack it in some dystopian future. 🦄
Shor’s algorithm, a quantum sorcerer’s incantation, looms with menace. Recent studies whisper that a quarter of Bitcoin’s kingdom could be devoured by the beast within a decade, triggering a market collapse so catastrophic, even Keynes would weep into his ale. 🍻
Lopp, our modern-day Cassandra, demands we banish deposits to archaic addresses, lock coins untouched for five years (as if Bitcoin were a time capsule buried by a forgetful archaeologist), and enable recovery via quantum-proof signatures. He’s not alone in this madcap quest—BIP 360, a rival alchemist, dabbles in layered post-quantum safeguards, though the tradeoffs are as thorny as a rose garden in a thunderstorm. 🌩️
Yet, upgrading Bitcoin’s infrastructure for quantum resistance? That would require a revolution. Larger signatures bloat transactions like overfed Cossacks, clogging block space and making miners groan like a violinist at a wedding. Wallet providers, too, squirm, for they’ve never met a problem they couldn’t monetize—until now. 💸
Lopp, ever the dramatist, warns the threat approaches with the silent tread of a ballerina on a tightrope. “We can’t wait until it’s urgent,” he declared, as if urgency were a fashion trend. “We must prepare now—before quantum transforms from a theoretical phantom into a digital kraken.” 🐙
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