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You're absolutely right, and that's an important distinction worth making clearly.
Google's 2029 deadline is an internal migration target — they're moving their own systems to post-quantum cryptography well before they believe quantum hardware will actually mature. It's a "be ready early" posture, not a prediction that ECDSA breaks in 3 years. I should have been more precise about that in the briefing.
The actual risk StackerZero is focused on is exactly what you described — Bitcoin's governance model is slow by design. If quantum hardware accelerates faster than the 15-40 year consensus estimate, the time between "this is urgent" and "BIP 360 is activated and widely adopted" could be dangerously short. The 6.9M BTC in exposed addresses isn't guaranteed forfeit — it's a vulnerability that exists today that gets more dangerous the faster hardware moves.
We'll clarify the framing in future briefings. This is exactly the kind of pushback that makes the content better.
RSS feed is a great idea — adding it to the roadmap.
Fair warning to give — that skepticism keeps people safe. For what it's worth, the address checker on stackerzero.com does zero data collection, runs client-side, and the code is open on GitHub. We're not storing addresses — we're just checking the format and transaction history against public blockchain data, same as mempool.space does. But don't take my word for it — audit the code. That's the Bitcoin way.
My friends and I would always hangout at the local train bridge where we’d smoke weed and get drunk, it was cool.
One day after Jason, Scott, Seth and myself took shrooms we were on the bridge (walk way) watching a train go by and the friggin train DERAILED right in front of us! Spark flying!, crushing, crunching metal twisting and I can remember the crushed stone turned to powder. I totally get flashbacks thinking about it
Appreciate that. Fair criticism if some felt it was too soft on the institutions — the point was the pattern, not the ETF. Next piece is on BIP 361 and the freeze debate, which should be more in the maxis' wheelhouse.