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Justin Drake

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648 total appearances

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Bankless
Ethereum’s Quantum Strategy with Justin Drake

And that is one of the main bottlenecks to making an attack.

Bankless
Ethereum’s Quantum Strategy with Justin Drake

The other bottleneck is to have the rigs, the hardware.

Bankless
Ethereum’s Quantum Strategy with Justin Drake

And here we're talking about a million rigs, just a million machines.

Bankless
Ethereum’s Quantum Strategy with Justin Drake

And it will cost you about $10 billion to pull off the attack, which in the grand scheme of things is absolute peanuts, both relative to the market cap of Bitcoin, but also for an attacker like Nation States.

Bankless
Ethereum’s Quantum Strategy with Justin Drake

Is that what you believe?

Bankless
Ethereum’s Quantum Strategy with Justin Drake

So I remain optimistic on quantum.

Bankless
Ethereum’s Quantum Strategy with Justin Drake

I still think that

Bankless
Ethereum’s Quantum Strategy with Justin Drake

Ultimately, it's rooted in a technical challenge that can be overcome.

Bankless
Ethereum’s Quantum Strategy with Justin Drake

The bigger issue I see is the security budget, because here we're getting at the core essence, the DNA of what it means to be Bitcoin, which is to have this $21 million cap and to be secured by proof of work.

Bankless
Ethereum’s Quantum Strategy with Justin Drake

And I just don't see how you can combine proof of work and $21 million cap.

Bankless
Ethereum’s Quantum Strategy with Justin Drake

You have to just lose one.

Bankless
Ethereum’s Quantum Strategy with Justin Drake

So there is a possibility, for example, that...

Bankless
Ethereum’s Quantum Strategy with Justin Drake

BTC, the assets, were to decouple with Bitcoin, the chain, and it could go live on the more secure chain for free.

Bankless
Ethereum’s Quantum Strategy with Justin Drake

And, you know, the obvious choice here is, you know, to live as an ERC-20 token, for example, on Ethereum.

Bankless
Ethereum’s Quantum Strategy with Justin Drake

But just saying these words, you know, is- Bitcoiners don't think like that.

Bankless
Ethereum’s Quantum Strategy with Justin Drake

No, they don't.

Bankless
Ethereum’s Quantum Strategy with Justin Drake

So-

Bankless
Ethereum’s Quantum Strategy with Justin Drake

But if I were to say different words like, oh yeah, we're just going to remove the 21 million limit because we realized that the security budget is insufficient, Bitcoiners also don't think like that.

Bankless
Ethereum’s Quantum Strategy with Justin Drake

And so they're heading very fast towards a wall and 2032 is the reckoning day.

Bankless
Ethereum’s Quantum Strategy with Justin Drake

So there's basically...