Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9665

Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools

For those of you who haven’t seen, there were actually two “bombshell” QC announcements this week. One, from Caltech, including friend-of-the-blog John Preskill, showed how to do quantum faul…

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One thing I find rather amazing about all of this is the degree to which the Bitcoin community has tried, for years, to claim that quantum computers will be another other than a complete break.

Sure, it takes a pretty nice quantum computer or a pretty good algorithm or a degree of malice on the part of miners to break pay-to-script-hash if your wallet has the right properties, but that seems like a pretty weak excuse for the fact that the entire scheme is broken, completely, by QC.

Does there even exist a credible post-quantum proof protocol that could be used to “rescue” P2SH wallets?

> the Bitcoin community has tried, for years, to claim that quantum computers will be another other than a complete break.

Who specifically is claiming this? Satoshi literally mentioned the need to upgrade if QC is viable on bitcointalk in 2010.