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> this would be a herculean effort for everyone involved and would require all holders (not miners) to actively update their wallets. Basically infeasible. Any
by jjmarr 1y ago
> this would be a herculean effort for everyone involved and would require all holders (not miners) to actively update their wallets. Basically infeasible.
Any rational economic actor would participate in a post-quantum hard fork because the alternative is losing all their money.
If this was a company with a $2 trillion market cap there'd be no question they'd move heaven-and-earth to prevent the stock from going to zero.
Y2K only cost $500 billion[1] adjusted for inflation and that required updating essentially every computer on Earth.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem#Cost https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem#Cost