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by nodoll 449 days ago
I think the community will replace it with a better algorithm and existing coins will be swapped for the new coin. Transactions might be required to be frozen for a while though..
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How do you make sure that only the original owner of a P2PK can swap for the new coin, and not one who also found the private key? Isn't that private key the only thing that can be required for authorizing the swap?
The 'community' hasn't even been able to increase the transaction throughput from being less than a 28.8 modem.
Who is going to replace it? There is no central authority.
None required. Once the vulnerability is known, everyone will be incentivized to migrate to the new coin.
Sure, but you’ll lose all your existing money.
No, the new coin will be exactly as valuable as Bitcoin, ensured by the community consensus. That is the whole point.
You clearly don't understand. Once the BTC cryptography is compromised, there is now way to prove chain of custody, so there is no way to prove who has how much bitcoin and assign it to a new coin. Literally, in an instant, the price of BTC goes to zero.