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By Jean-Luc Maracon
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Tether's Minting Key and the Real Prize. Satoshi's Bitcoin stash — worth around $63 billion — gets all the attention when people talk…
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When Experts Disagree on Q-Day. Sean Cheetham of Blockchain Capital sees the early 2030s as a more realistic window.
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The Migration Race Nobody Talks About. Post-quantum signatures are the main line of defense.
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The first sign of a quantum attack on crypto might not be a headline. It might just be a wallet going empty — no trace, no explanation, no culprit.
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Christopher Smith, CEO of Quantus Network, thinks that's exactly how it could play out. Bad actors who crack elliptic-curve cryptography won't necessarily announce themselves by…
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It's a chilling scenario, and not an implausible one.
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Satoshi's Bitcoin stash — worth around $63 billion — gets all the attention when people talk quantum risk. But Smith thinks that's probably not the first target.
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That's the thing about plausible deniability. A quantum-capable attacker doesn't need to announce what they've done.
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Smith puts the odds of quantum computers threatening modern cryptography at roughly 50-50 by 2028.
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Sean Cheetham of Blockchain Capital sees the early 2030s as a more realistic window. Michael Coates of the Solana Foundation is even more skeptical — he's pointed out that the…
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That skepticism isn't unreasonable. Quantum hardware is genuinely hard to scale. Error rates remain a serious problem.
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Read also: Coldcard Hardware Wallet Breach Tops $100M as July Crypto Losses Hit $247M
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Google accelerated its own post-quantum cryptography transition timeline to 2029, partly because of exactly that kind of AI-assisted breakthrough.
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Roy Blackstone, CEO of NGRAVE, doesn't mince words on what happens if blockchains aren't ready. Catastrophic, basically.
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Post-quantum signatures are the main line of defense. Blockchain networks are actively working on migrating away from elliptic-curve cryptography toward cryptographic schemes…
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