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Nic Carter
Personal blog · murmurationstwo.substack.comeconomicsai
Nic Carter writes Murmurations II, a personal blog at murmurationstwo.substack.com about economics and ai. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Bitcoin developers are mostly not concerned about quantum risk”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Nic Carter's piece on Bitcoin and quantum computing, including the argument about whether a quantum computer would be used to steal Bitcoin and which Bitcoin components it would undermine.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I write deep dives about whatever I am curious about. AI, energy, crypto, politics, and markets. Sometimes fiction.
Most-linked posts?
- Bitcoin developers are mostly not concerned about quantum risk2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-06
What Hacker News says?
Good article with some questionable remarks like > Q: Stealing is illegal, so why would anyone use a CRQC to steal Bitcoin? > A: If you truly believe this, you really should value Bitcoin at 0 – it has many unnecessary components with a lot of overhead, like proof-of-work and digital signatures. Proof of work is still necessary for two reasons: 1) to fairly distribute all coins (it's not sufficient though, e.g. Bitc…
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on “Bitcoin and Quantum Computing”Submitted Total Epistemic Divorce as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bitcoin developers are mostly not concerned about quantum risk as a story · 1 points
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