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Story: Trump’s 2031 Quantum Deadline Puts 7 Million Bitcoin and $449 Billion at Stake

By Jean-Luc Maracon

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What the Orders Actually Say. The quantum development piece has a name: the Quantum Computer for Application Development and…

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Bitcoin's Quantum Exposure Problem. About 65% of all Bitcoin are currently shielded from immediate risk because their public keys stay…

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Dormant Coins, Ancient Keys, No Easy Fix. Bitcoin mined in 2009 — coins widely associated with the network's pseudonymous creator, Satoshi…

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President Trump signed two executive orders on June 22. They're already rattling the crypto world — and not in a small way.

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The first order tells federal agencies to implement post-quantum cryptography for encryption keys by the end of 2030 and for digital signatures by the end of 2031.

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Nearly 7 million Bitcoin — worth roughly $449 billion at current valuations — sit exposed.

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The orders also push to grow the domestic quantum workforce and shield research from foreign espionage.

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Short version: this isn't a vague policy gesture. There are deadlines, agencies named, and programs funded.

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About 65% of all Bitcoin are currently shielded from immediate risk because their public keys stay hidden until the coins are actually spent.

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Address reuse makes everything worse. When users repeatedly transact from the same wallet, the public key gets exposed over and over.

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And the concentration is striking. Around 84.5% of exposed Bitcoin sit in just 4,079 wallets. Many of those wallets have no public identification attached to them.

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Read also: Trumps 2031 Quantum Encryption Mandate Puts Federal Agencies on the Clock

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Bitcoin mined in 2009 — coins widely associated with the network's pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto — are held in Pay-to-Public-Key outputs.

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Migration to safer address formats has been slow. Too slow, probably, given the timeline Trump's orders just set.

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A draft proposal called BIP-361 tries to address this directly. It lays out a phased approach. Phase one: stop additional funds from being sent to quantum-vulnerable addresses.

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