If quantum computing could break Bitcoin's encryption, that same quantum decryption would give access to nuclear codes and everyone's bank accounts, meaning we would have far bigger problems than Bitcoin - so quantum risk is not a uniquely Bitcoin-specific threat.

Every generation feels like it is at the most extraordinary period of technological and societal growth ever.

Export restrictions like blocking Nvidia chips to China are counterproductive because, by Darwinian logic, a constraint forces evolution to find a way around it - pushing China to build internal capabilities (e.g. Huawei chips) and become more efficient, as DeepSeek demonstrated by changing algorithms to do more with fewer chip resources.