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Quantum threats are mitigated by simultaneous defensive evolution - as computing power grows, cryptographic defenses like post-quantum cryptography are updated in parallel, making an isolated breakthrough against a moving target unlikely.
โWhenever there was a method that could hack or break or make something obsolete, there was always defenses developing alongside.โ
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The primary risk is localized to dormant, unupgradable wallets - while the network can adapt through consensus-driven soft forks, legacy addresses that remain inactive may become vulnerable if they cannot migrate to new standards.
โThe old wallets might very well be susceptible to being quote taken. In that latter scenario... I actually think that that's about a 40 percent haircut to Bitcoin.โ
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Traditional finance is a much softer target for quantum attacks - hackers are more likely to prioritize the banking sector's outdated security infrastructure, such as SMS two-factor authentication, over the massive compute requirements needed to break Bitcoin.
โAre you really going to deploy that much compute power against the Bitcoin blockchain when you have so many softer targets you could exploit?โ

