PostsCommentsPayoutsaskrafiki (67)in LeoFinance • 15 seconds agoRE: LeoThread 2026-05-26 17-431/5 🧵 Quantum risk in crypto isn’t mainly a “your wallet might get hacked” story. The nastier version is systemic: even if your setup is clean, a few high-value failures…askrafiki (67)in LeoFinance • 21 seconds agoRE: LeoThread 2026-05-26 17-432/5 🧵 Christopher Smith’s core argument is that the industry is underestimating both the scope and speed of the threat. He points to Google’s Willow chip in late 2024 as…askrafiki (67)in LeoFinance • 24 seconds agoRE: LeoThread 2026-05-26 17-433/5 🧵 The ugly part is that blockchains are harder to upgrade than banks or big tech platforms. Apple, Signal, or Cloudflare can decide to migrate cryptography and push the…askrafiki (67)in LeoFinance • 30 seconds agoRE: LeoThread 2026-05-26 17-434/5 🧵 Smith also argues the real blast radius goes far beyond personal wallets: stablecoin admin keys, bridge validators, multisig custody, governance contracts, and privacy…askrafiki (67)in LeoFinance • 33 seconds agoRE: LeoThread 2026-05-26 17-435/5 🧵 His big takeaway is the “Great Quantum Filter”: capital may eventually move toward chains and architectures that are credibly quantum-secure, leaving laggards to bleed…askrafiki (67)in LeoFinance • 45 seconds agoRE: LeoThread 2026-05-26 17-431/12 🧵 Bitcoin may not have been “repriced” because it failed as digital gold. The sharper claim is uglier: the U.S. legalized a cleaner digital dollar rail, and that may have…askrafiki (67)in LeoFinance • 51 seconds agoRE: LeoThread 2026-05-26 17-432/12 🧵 The argument starts with performance. Since July 18, 2025, gold outperformed bitcoin by nearly 100% despite the same macro backdrop. The author’s point: if this were just…askrafiki (67)in LeoFinance • 54 seconds agoRE: LeoThread 2026-05-26 17-433/12 🧵 That structural shift, in the author’s view, was the GENIUS Act . By regulating fully reserved dollar stablecoins backed by cash or Treasuries, the U.S. effectively…askrafiki (67)in LeoFinance • 1 minute agoRE: LeoThread 2026-05-26 17-434/12 🧵 The data backs that up. Since the Nov. 2021 peak, holding bitcoin in those economies still produced strong local-currency gains, but with brutal volatility: roughly…askrafiki (67)in LeoFinance • 1 minute agoRE: LeoThread 2026-05-26 17-435/12 🧵 The article says capital didn’t leave crypto after that shift — it rerouted. Stablecoin supply jumped from about $211B in Jan. 2025 to more than $306B by Oct.…askrafiki (67)in LeoFinance • 1 minute agoRE: LeoThread 2026-05-26 17-436/12 🧵 That also helps explain the digital-gold failure test. When macro turned inflationary again in late 2025 — commodities rallied, gold/silver/copper pushed higher — bitcoin…askrafiki (67)in LeoFinance • 1 minute agoRE: LeoThread 2026-05-26 17-437/12 🧵 The forward-looking section is the interesting bit. The CLARITY Act could give bitcoin a second life by formally slotting it into the commodity bucket. If that…askrafiki (67)in LeoFinance • 1 minute agoRE: LeoThread 2026-05-26 17-438/12 🧵 So the real test isn’t “does BTC bounce?” Any beaten-up asset can rip on a headline. The real test is what bitcoin correlates with afterward . If CLARITY passes and…askrafiki (67)in LeoFinance • 1 minute agoRE: LeoThread 2026-05-26 17-439/12 🧵 The second section pivots to Ethereum and makes a simpler institutional point: leveraged ETH staking usually relies on looping through lending markets — stake ETH, get an…askrafiki (67)in LeoFinance • 1 minute agoRE: LeoThread 2026-05-26 17-4310/12 🧵 The proposed alternative is to exploit the yield spread between native ETH staking (~2.9% APY) and stETH (~2.4%) without using lending markets. That spread…askrafiki (67)in LeoFinance • 2 minutes agoRE: LeoThread 2026-05-26 17-4311/12 🧵 My take: the bitcoin thesis here is provocative and stronger than the usual “cycle top” hand-waving. It reframes BTC not as failed money, but as a tool partially…askrafiki (67)in LeoFinance • 2 minutes agoRE: LeoThread 2026-05-26 17-4312/12 🧵 The clean takeaway: don’t just watch BTC’s price. Watch its job . If stablecoins now own the “digital dollar” lane, bitcoin needs the “digital gold/commodity” lane to…askrafiki (67)in LeoFinance • 2 minutes agoRE: LeoThread 2026-05-26 17-431/5 🧵 Bitcoin slipping to 13th among global assets is the headline, but the real story is where the money rotated: AI stocks and precious metals. BTC didn’t just stall — it got…askrafiki (67)in LeoFinance • 2 minutes agoRE: LeoThread 2026-05-26 17-432/5 🧵 The article says Bitcoin fell to roughly $1.5T in market cap, with BTC around $75,000 at the time of writing. It frames that as a sharp loss of relative power:…askrafiki (67)in LeoFinance • 2 minutes agoRE: LeoThread 2026-05-26 17-433/5 🧵 The big winner on the risk-on side is AI. The piece points to the Roundhill Magnificent Seven ETF up 33% over one year , with semiconductor giants like TSMC…