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That's a good point, but I still think it means this proposal is weaker than the it otherwise sounds: I think most of the people who will benefit from this proposal are also people who would be able to take some action to quantum proof their coins before qday.
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I think that's the open question... to what extent will the risk of a mine actually deter stealing?
I imagine people will still go for the Satoshi coins because even if the risk of a landmine is high elsewhere, most people probably just assume Satoshi isn't active anymore
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the actual proposal directly addresses this with an auction/bidding mechanism. I just didn't take the time to understand that because it seemed quite complicated.
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Thanks for the explanation in laymen's terms. I saw this concept before but didn't understand it till your post
One response to your wrinkle: The quantum landmine collateral doesn't have to be an equal number of coins as you're trying to spend in order to be effective. It just has to be sufficiently deterrent to the potential thief.
If someone has a sufficiently large stash they want to move, they can buy sufficient collateral on the open market and they should be willing to do so if the stack is large