Either use your quantum computer to steal the bitcoin or shut up about it. Because I think you’re full of shit.
Is quantum a threat to Bitcoin? Yep, eventually when it transcends beyond fucking theoreticals. They will tell you that the reason they're picking in Bitcoin is because it is decentralized and harder to get consensus for updating to PQC compliant solutions.
They keep making the assumption that all current centralized environments and systems will be upgraded well in advance. I've worked in corporate and government IT for nearly 3 decades. There are still environments out there running ancient unpatched and out-of-support Windows 95/7/10 devices in their environment because they have legacy applications that run their entire environments. Hell, even the government routinely misses NIST deadlines on getting shit patched.
If there are vulnerable tradfi systems out there, they're getting the attention first, especially Internet-facing servers and networks. If you crack SSL/TLS, you can run MITM attacks and basically turn anything compromised into a honeypot.
After that, nation states are sitting on decades worth of encrypted communications, files, etc. that they've got from intercepts and hacks. That's getting attention before Bitcoin, especially if the whole mempool attack is what they think will happen as all that does is either destroys Bitcoin or forces a fork and then your coins are worthless.
They keep making the assumption that all current centralized environments and systems will be upgraded well in advance. I've worked in corporate and government IT for nearly 3 decades. There are still environments out there running ancient unpatched and out-of-support Windows 95/7/10 devices in their environment because they have legacy applications that run their entire environments. Hell, even the government routinely misses NIST deadlines on getting shit patched.
If there are vulnerable tradfi systems out there, they're getting the attention first, especially Internet-facing servers and networks. If you crack SSL/TLS, you can run MITM attacks and basically turn anything compromised into a honeypot.
After that, nation states are sitting on decades worth of encrypted communications, files, etc. that they've got from intercepts and hacks. That's getting attention before Bitcoin, especially if the whole mempool attack is what they think will happen as all that does is either destroys Bitcoin or forces a fork and then your coins are worthless.