Will Bitcoin Hardfork over Quantum?

[Agiravax]

Protective Hardfork is as disruptive and anyway mandatory first to freeconsensus of those against softfork.
Along with Asian miners.

Ah, so your argument is that a softfork to increase blocksize for a BIP-360-style quantum improvement would not be accepted, and thus the hardfork is the only option?

Blocksize can only be increased with hardfork.

Softfork-only path only means you won't be able to afford a mainchain wallet anymore.

There is no speculation. Only 2 options :

1) Introduce signatures via softfork-only into hell
2) Hardfork blocksize before to avoid hell

[dkbit98]

It's been a while since we had any bitcoin fork, so it's not impossible to see one happening in next few years.
I am not worried so much about Quantum computers but it would be wise to prepare and be ready if threat become serious.
Problem is that nobody is making quantum resistant banks and financial system, and if everything else crashes, bitcoin is also going down.
I am sure enough people would support another btc fork just because they would get some free coins again

[Agiravax]

It's been a while since we had any bitcoin fork, so it's not impossible to see one happening in next few years.
I am not worried so much about Quantum computers but it would be wise to prepare and be ready if threat become serious.
Problem is that nobody is making quantum resistant banks and financial system, and if everything else crashes, bitcoin is also going down.
I am sure enough people would support another btc fork just because they would get some free coins again

Banks don't have to try to find consensus towards guaranteed economic death...

[PX-Z]

It will without doubt hardfork to a quantum-resistant algorithm, at some point. The real questions are (1) which algorithm that is (2) how many years it will take and (3) whether vulnerable coins will be frozen or not.

A softfork with post-quantum signature schemes might be proposed and applied first, but if the assumed damage of the quantum computation is enough to considered as a threat, a hardfork is higher chance. But the timeline? It won't happen in 5 year, probably 10 years before this quantum computers are built, usually these kind of computers are built for different purposes not to disrupt the whole internet since it will be affected as well lmao

[Agiravax]

A softfork with post-quantum signature schemes might be proposed and applied first, but if the assumed damage of the quantum computation is enough to considered as a threat, a hardfork is higher chance. But the timeline? It won't happen in 5 year, probably 10 years before this quantum computers are built, usually these kind of computers are built for different purposes not to disrupt the whole internet since it will be affected as well lmao

As explained, Hardfork comes first and softfork-only is economic dead end.
The only threat is other chains being quantum safe soon as Bitcoin stucked in consensus besides would be loosing ranking.
Until it Hardforks to safety.

Are you sure you guys understand Bitcoin?