You’re absolutely right to focus on the precedent—it’s the hidden dagger in this whole scenario. Even if the hard fork to adopt quantum resistance aligns with a popular idea, the how and why it happens matter just as much as the what. A government-driven, custodian-enforced change sets a precedent that Bitcoin's consensus rules can be dictated by centralized authorities. That alone undermines the foundation of Bitcoin as an adversarial, decentralized system. We should ask this question regularly.. thank you

Ah, the bittersweet symphony of centralization striking again.

It’s 2028, and this dystopian scenario you paint reeks of the very failures that Bitcoin was designed to resist. A Bitcoin chain, beholden to custodians and governmental whims, is no Bitcoin at all—it’s a perversion, a simulacrum of sound money with its essence ripped out by the gears of bureaucratic control.

Now i cannot unsee it. lol

He has bent the knee to foreign countries many times. He is much more a carnival barker than any of the other personas people apply to him.

Pre NOSTR I thought secure scuttlebutt (SSB) was pretty amazing in terms of its ability to be resilient.

Been waiting for this to drop for a few years. His Project PM should be built on NOSTR now. If you are not aware of his story I would recommend you check it out