data: add Tadge Dryja (score 4), Bob McElrath (score 2), Jeremy Rubin (score 3)

[gregoryford963-sys]

Summary

Three new developer entries with verifiable primary-source citations, adding to ranks 69–71:

• Tadge Dryja (rank 69, score 4 — Proactive): Lightning Network co-inventor at MIT DCI who proposed a post-quantum commit/reveal soft fork on bitcoin-dev ML (May 28, 2025). His "Fawkescoin variant" separates tx broadcasting into commit (hash only) and reveal phases, activated only on proof-of-QC event. Also proposed a no-fork "Lifeboat" variant. Treats quantum as real but timeline-uncertain; primary source is his direct mailing list post.

• Bob McElrath (rank 70, score 2 — Dismissive): PhD theoretical physicist (former Fidelity Digital Assets, Braidpool) who dismissed December 2025 claims that 5/6-bit ECC was broken by quantum hardware, citing: classical preprocessing hard-coding the answer, circuit depth exceeding hardware coherence limits, and output "indistinguishable from random noise." Aware of theoretical threat, skeptical of near-term risk. Primary source: X post verified via snowflake ID timestamp decode (Dec 21, 2025).

• Jeremy Rubin (rank 71, score 3 — Cautious): BIP-119 (OP_CTV) author who proposed an OP_CAT + Lamport signature quantum-proofing scheme in a 2021 blog post — sign ECDSA sigs with quantum-safe Lamport sigs at the script layer, requiring no new signature algorithm in consensus. Exploratory/constructive tone; treats quantum as a real long-horizon risk worth engineering against now.

Validation

bun scripts/validate-data.mjs
# validate-data passed: 71 developers, ranked=50, notable=19
git diff --check
# (no whitespace issues)

Both data.json and public/data.json updated identically.

Sources

Developer	Primary Source	Date
Tadge Dryja	bitcoin-dev ML post	2025-05-28
Bob McElrath	X post @BobMcElrath	2025-12-21
Jeremy Rubin	rubin.io blog	2021-07-06

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[lekanbams]

PC review — lekanbams

Changes requested. The three developer entries are good research — the problem is the diff itself and one sourcing issue.

1. Encoding regression (blocking). The PR re-encodes UTF-8 characters as \u escapes across ~10 entries it shouldn't touch — Gögge, Neha Narula, Adam Gibson, Lelli, Gidney, Oriole, Chevignard, Delfosse, Postquant, Fang all show ö → ö, — → —, “ ” → “ ”. Your JSON serializer ran with ensure_ascii=True and rewrote the whole file. Both forms are valid JSON, but this:

• makes the diff unreadable (real changes buried in encoding noise)
• will merge-conflict with every other open data PR (#50, #53, #54, #55, #56, #57, #58)
  Re-serialize with UTF-8 preserved (ensure_ascii=False, or surgical edits) so the diff shows only the three new entries + metadata.

2. Bob McElrath sourcing (blocking). key_source is x.com/BobMcElrath/status/... and the secondary is btctimes.com — neither is an approved primary domain. X-only sourcing is the exact pattern Iskander's #43 review told @Isjuanplayer to replace. McElrath's points are substantive (classical preprocessing, coherence-limit critique), but they need a durable primary: a mailing-list post, a github comment, or his own long-form writing. If none exists, drop McElrath from this PR and keep Dryja + Rubin.

3. Rank-69 collision with #50 and #57 — recommending #50 takes rank 69; this PR rebases its three entries after.

What's good:

• Tadge Dryja (score 4): the commit/reveal soft-fork proposal (Fawkescoin variant + Lifeboat) is a concrete PQ contingency design — proactive is right. Mailing-list primary source. The May-2025 vintage is a little stale but it's a substantive proposal, not a passing remark.
• Jeremy Rubin (score 3): OP_CAT + Lamport scheme, "exploratory and technically constructive rather than urgent" — cautious tier is the correct read. His own blog is acceptable as the primary for his own stated position.

Fix 1 and 2, rebase for 3, and Dryja + Rubin land clean.

[gregoryford963-sys]

Fixed per review:

1. Encoding regression — reset to upstream/main and applied changes surgically; diff is now clean UTF-8 with no \u escapes
2. McElrath dropped — X + btctimes.com not an approved primary source; will revisit if a mailing-list or long-form post surfaces
3. Ranks rebased — Dryja at 70, Rubin at 71 (leaves 69 for add Cain, Xu, Bluvstein et al. (arXiv 2603.28627) — score 4, notable #50)
4. Metadata updated — total_assessed 68→70, notable_additions 18→19, 4_proactive 18→19, 3_cautious 8→9

[gregoryford963-sys]

@lekanbams — all three issues addressed, ready for re-review.

[gregoryford963-sys]

Addressed all three items from the PC review:

1. Encoding regression — re-serialized with ensure_ascii=False; confirmed zero \u00xx escapes in the file. Diff now shows only the new entries.

2. McElrath dropped — X-only sourcing isn't a durable primary. Dryja and Rubin both have mailing-list / personal blog primaries and survive on their own.

3. Rank-69 collision — Dryja at rank 70, Rubin at rank 71; rank 69 left open for PR #50 (Cain et al.).

Validation: validate-data passes (70 devs, ranked=50, notable=19), dual-file byte-identical, git diff --check clean.

@lekanbams — ready for re-review when you have a moment.

[gregoryford963-sys]

Closing in favor of #64 — clean refile on current main (2a15bf1) with surgical apply, McElrath dropped, no encoding changes to existing entries.