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Morning Edition · Thursday, September 17, 2026Published at 1:45 AM EDT · New York
Jameson Lopp Puts the Question Bitcoin Has Avoided in Writing: Freeze Quantum-Vulnerable Coins, or Let Them Be Taken
The essay treats the choice as a social decision about property rights rather than a cryptographic problem, because either answer breaks a rule the network has held since it began.
Jameson Lopp, a long-standing Bitcoin engineer and security researcher, published an essay in Bitcoin Magazine's Quantum Issue arguing that quantum computing will force the network to confront contentious social decisions it has so far defe…
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