David Hoffman
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Engineering effort, you mean?
And you don't have to deal with the big thing, which is property rights.
What do you do with 10% to 15% of the supply?
There's no good answer for Bitcoin there.
And actually, Google makes the same assessment.
They said, Ethereum has a broader overall quantum attack surface than Bitcoin.
However, this is compensated by stronger community leadership in the Ethereum Foundation.
Ethereum already has a roadmap for this.
Bitcoin is kind of like, eh, are quantum computers real?
Are they real?
Yeah, I can hear you, blah, blah, blah.
We'll give you some takes on the takes later, but they also mentioned some other chains.
So Zcash, they said it was likely a first target.
They mentioned stealth inflation attacks that are available.
Also-
Monero, if you're on Monero, all of the private transactions could be yielded public like this with a quantum computer.
Are you serious?
Yes, David.
Now, some chains are ready for this.
Algorand is ready.