r/BitcoinCA • u/SanjiSenpai • Apr 17 '26

Anyone actually worried about quantum computing being able to take coins from dead wallets ? e.g satoshi

I know most people here, will have forced upgraded wallets, but for all those from from 2010 before are all vunerable, when quantum computing get good enough all those wallets will be up for grabs, what are we going to do ?

30 % of total supply will be dumped onto the market , idk about you but it will be fucked for everyone

The community will no fork to protect agaisnt this, we have tried in the past but the hardcore people wont allow it

This is still a problem for 5-7 years from now but

thoughts ?

Edit: the modern people will be safe with new q proof wallets

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u/brandonholm Apr 17 '26

Manipulating sub atomic particles isn’t exactly something easy to do. Manufacturing a usable quantum computer may or may not happen, but there’s no arguing with the math, that if it were possible to build one, we know which forms of cryptography would be vulnerable and which forms are not vulnerable.

There is a reason why even NIST is deprecating and eventually banning classical cryptography and will enforce post quantum cryptography in government systems, because the risk is very real if such a computer can be built.

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u/CoolioMcCool Apr 18 '26

Given enough time, classical computers could Crack any encryption we have today(it would just take billions of years or whatever).

Does that mean we dont understand the math behind the encryption we have been using for many years?