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Good points.

They're free to do that, and everyone is even free to repeat it. But, if they or their shills ever need something... tough luck.

Probably the shittiest outcome: crying wolf, and giving impetus to the whole practice getting swept into the "wolf-crying" category in the future.

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Exactly! That's why I linked those specific minutes. Because they show that people are thinking about it but are also seeing some major challenges that need to be solved. I could have also linked the BIP-0360 PR which has been a work in progress for 15 months - and that is after many months of prior public and private discussion.

Yes, there are differing opinions about the urgency, and yeah, maybe Adam should sometimes not tweet what he thinks, because he is undeniably a dev whisperer and has bigger influence within the Bitcoin developer space than most. But Saylor or Carter cannot make this process go any faster by commenting on it, nor will it be more robust.

In the end, it doesn't really matter if QC is the threat or not. All cryptography must be assumed to eventually be broken, so ultimately, bitcoiners gaining experience with what an algo rollover looks like in a fully decentralized consensus system will benefit future generations. What an algo rollover should not look like? Endless back and forth about urgency instead of solutions.

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