Not trying to spread FUD, but I’ve been reading about how sufficiently advanced quantum computers could theoretically break ECDSA (the signature scheme Bitcoin uses), so I’m trying to understand:
– Are we even close to the kind of fault-tolerant quantum machines needed to do that?
– Would only exposed public keys be at risk?
– Could Bitcoin realistically soft-fork to quantum-resistant signatures before it becomes a problem?
– Is this more “interesting academic risk” or “eventual inevitability”?
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