Firstly I want to echo everything conduition said but I want to raise one further point.

You don’t get to decide. Nor do I. The market does.

Both bitcoins will, without question, exist - one where insecure spend paths are disabled (with the exceptions conduition raises, and probably any more we can come up with [1])) and one where they are not, and the market will decide which it prefers.

I’m quite confident the market is going to pick the side that has something like 100x less supply, especially if it avoids burning any coins to the maximum extent possible…the law of supply and demand doesn’t care all that much about our feelings on the matter.

[1] I’ve noted before we should allow for both seedphrase recovery schemes as well as a commit-before-Q-day-reveal-after scheme to allow anyone who has keys to non-seedphrase coins to retain ownership without having to go to chain. This may bee important, for example, for the owner of the patoshi coins.

On Apr 14, 2026, at 14:51, Erik Aronesty <erik@q32.com> wrote:

Deactivating ECDSA/Schnorr based schemes should not be discussed seriously.

You give people alternatives, yes. I'm a big fan of quantum optionality.

But we cannot have a forced vaccination situation.

There is simply no credible way you can convince somebody who is sovereign that their encryption algorithm is broken aside from breaking it.

People can send to bad keys today.

There are lots of op codes that let people shoot themselves in the foot

Bitcoin is not a nanny state.

"oh no someone might break satoshi's keys"

Let them. if satoshi's 50 Bitcoin stash keys serve to be the bounty that propels humanity to a future of limitless unbounded magical computing that is not a problem we need to solve right now.

The worst possible thing we could do is confiscate everybody's coin and move to a NISD approved algorithm on the say so of large government funded organizations.

That sounds dystopian at best.

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