Satoshi's 1.1M BTC gets the headline but 6.9M coins sit in quantum-vulnerable addresses — that's a $470B blast radius, not $75B. QRAMP requiring a hard fork is DOA; this network couldn't consensus on 2MB blocks, it's definitely not going to consensus on burning dormant coins. Google dropping qubit estimates from 20M to ~100K in a few years means the attack surface is compressing faster than Bitcoin governance can respond.

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