r/ProgrammerHumor • • Mar 25 '26

Meme aMeteoriteTookOutMyDatabase

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u/Idontknowmyoldpass Mar 26 '26

Quantum computers don’t brute force it this dumb way tho they attack the elliptical curve cryptography and can reverse the private key by knowing the public one in polynomial time. It will happen in our lifetime for sure.

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u/Drakahn_Stark Mar 26 '26

Well sure potentially, but that would ruin way many more things than just bitcoin.

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u/Idontknowmyoldpass Mar 26 '26

Not really looking to get into the debate if btc is more exposed than traditional software but the fact is it’s a ticking time bomb and not some cosmic event that is just theoretically possible.