<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 10:11 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>></span>There will come a time when quantum computers have made a lot of progress very rapidly but they're still not big enough to run Shor’s algorithm; however, an increasingly large number of people realize that they soon will be, and then there's going to be a wave of panic selling.</b></font></blockquote>
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You grossly overestimate the technical literacy of the general public</i></font><br></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Perhaps so for the general public, but I'm talking about the very smart people who work at banks and hedge funds that own lots of bitcoins, they're going to be, not only selling their bitcoins as fast as they can, they're also going to be<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>shorting it. And it will be impossible to keep th<span class="gmail_default" style="">e</span> fact that smart money is fleeing bitcoin<span class="gmail_default" style=""> a secret. </span></b></font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>"This might someday happen" is leagues apart from "the computer is<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>there now, and here's a demo of how it can break Bitcoin's security,</i></font><br></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>But when one of the world's leading experts on quantum computers, somebody who had previously been a very vocal critic of the excess hype surrounding his speciality, now says that <span class="gmail_default" style="">"</span><i style="">we’ll have a fault-tolerant quantum computer running Shor’s algorithm before the next US presidential election</i><span class="gmail_default" style="">" then it's time to sit up and pay attention if you want to keep your money. He might be wrong but he knows one hell of a lot more about quantum computers than you or me. </span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">John K Clark</span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4"><b style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></b></font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br><br>
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