Quantum meme · on NEAR · paired with QTC
|wallet⟩ = ( |safe⟩ + |stolen⟩ ) / √2
In 1935 a cat sat in Schrödinger's box. The cat retired. An owl moved in. Now the thing in the box is your wallet.
Move your cursor over the owl. Observing collapses it.
The experiment
Schrödinger puts a cat in a box. Until someone looks, it's alive and dead at once.
The cat retires. An owl takes the box. Owls see in the dark, and they look first.
Now your wallet sits in the box. If its lid is open, a big enough quantum computer can read the key inside.
How the box works
This is the real mechanism behind Open the box, not a metaphor.
The chain only shows a hash of your public key. The key itself stays in the box. That's |alive⟩.
To spend, a wallet must publish its public key. Taproot and the oldest coins show it from day one. That's |dead⟩.
A large enough quantum computer running Shor's algorithm can turn a public key into its private key. ECDSA and Ed25519 both fall to it.
Quantus is a proof-of-work chain that signs with ML-DSA (Dilithium-5), the NIST post-quantum standard FIPS 204, from block one. There is no ECDSA key for Shor to break. Quantus mainnet has run since 9 Sep 2026; its coin, QTC, reached NEAR on 7 Oct 2026.
That's why $HOOTUM trades against QTC, and why Observers get paid in it.
Why now
QTC, the post-quantum coin from Quantus, went live on NEAR. Its mainnet has run since 9 Sep 2026.
Quantum Insider ↗Open the box
Paste a BTC address. We check if its public key has ever appeared on-chain. Read-only. No wallet connection.
The genesis reward sits in a raw public-key output. The key has been on-chain since 2009.
Example: Satoshi's genesis box. Paste any address to open your own.
Checked live on mempool.space. We don't store the addresses you open.
Famous boxes
Some of the biggest Bitcoin piles on Earth, checked on-chain. All public, well-known addresses. A new box every day.
Re-checked daily on mempool.space · last check 8 Oct 2026. Exchange labels come from public explorers. Tap a box to re-open it live.
Observers get paid in QTC
$HOOTUM trades against QTC, whose signatures use the NIST post-quantum standard. Every fee the token earns goes to holders in QTC, or burns. The creator takes 0%.
Someone buys or sells $HOOTUM on its HOOTUM/QTC pool.
A 2% buy/sell tax is collected. After the platform cut, 90% goes to holders and 10% burns $HOOTUM. On buys, the pool fee goes to holders too; on sells, it burns.
nearly.trade pays it out in QTC to every wallet, by bag size, about every 15 minutes.
This counter reads the total on-chain. Nothing to claim, nothing to sign.
Tokenomics
A measurement collapses something and pays the observer. Here, each trade burns a little $HOOTUM and pays Observers in QTC.
Clean launch
Every line is read from the chain. Full receipts live on /proof.
Fee mode, tax and payout target are fixed at launch on-chain. Nobody can change them, us included.
Pending launchQTC pairs have no dev first buy. The dev buys on the open market, up to 3%, from one public wallet.
Pending launch1B supply, all in the pool from block one. The creator earns nothing from fees. Liquidity is locked forever.
Pending launchBox ritual
A public weekly report. No raffles, no winners. Just what happened.
Chapters
Each chapter opens when enough people hold the box. Later chapters are ideas, and we say so.
The token, the site, Open the box, the weekly ritual.
More famous boxes, plus a live board of the biggest |dead⟩ piles on Bitcoin.
An idea. Quantus's founder expects the first quantum theft to look like an ordinary lost key. A public canary would watch the big |dead⟩ boxes, like Satoshi's, for moves nobody can explain.
Research only. Moving funds when the canary trips. Not promised.
FAQ · Observer vocabulary
No. Hootum is a meme. The box checker only tells you whether your public key is already visible on-chain. It does not move, secure, or insure anything.
On nearly.trade. $HOOTUM is paired with QTC, but you can pay with NEAR: the swap routes through QTC for you in one transaction. Routing adds about 1% in pool fees.
3%: the 1% pool fee plus the 2% tax. Paying with NEAR adds about 1% for the hop through QTC. Most of it comes back to holders: 1.26% of every trade in QTC, plus the pool fee on buys. Sells feed the burn.
Just hold. About every 15 minutes, nearly.trade sends QTC to holders by bag size once a wallet is owed at least $0.10. Tokens sitting in a pool or LP position don't count.
nearly.trade only allows a first buy on NEAR pairs. On a QTC pair the dev buys on the open market like everyone else, from one public wallet, capped at 3%.
There is one contract address. It appears only on @hootumwtf and on this site. Any other address using the name is not ours.
That address has never revealed its public key on-chain. It's a snapshot of today, not a guarantee.
Bitcoin signatures use ECDSA. Shor's algorithm, on a large enough quantum computer, recovers a private key from its public key. Your public key goes on-chain the first time you spend from an address, or right away for Taproot and the oldest coins. Nobody has that machine yet. Nobody knows when Q-day comes.
Nothing official. Hootum is an independent meme that pairs with QTC and pays holders in it. We're not affiliated with Quantus, NEAR or nearly.trade.
Quantus says QTC signs with ML-DSA (Dilithium-5), standardised by NIST as FIPS 204. That's their claim about their chain; check quantus.com. Hootum makes no promise about the safety of any wallet.