According to to a 2023 expert survey, there is a high likelihood that quantum computers will be able to break cryptography within 3 decades.

And that may prove to be conservative.

While #bitcoin is highly secure, possibly one of the most secure protocols ever invented, technological progress marches on.

Are we in the calm before the quantum computing storm? Like with AI before 2021? It's possible.

When ChatGPT3 was released, it caught everyone by surprise. Even the computer scientists and the AI engineers were blown away by how much better it was than anything preceding it.

Prior to that, most people didn't use, or care about, 'AI'.

But now virtually every company in the world is using ChatGPT in some form or another. The vast majority of marketers are using it to assist with content creation and ideation. In fact, if you DON'T use it, you're already falling behind...

I wonder if that will happen with quantum computers. Right now, we don't hear much about them, we don't use them, and we don't speak about them.

Perhaps a breakthrough will be made and that will all change. Rather than scramble to secure bitcoin against a new and menacing threat, we should proactively seek solutions.

#cryptography #quantumcomputing #bitcoinsecurity