48 Hours to Oblivion

The Day Bitcoin Faced the Quantum Reckoning

Prologue

Friday, September 2, 2033 — 4:00 PM UTC

Bitcoin Price: $1,973,842

The breach didn’t begin with an explosion.

It began with a whisper on the blockchain.

At 4:03 PM, a wallet containing 50 BTC mined in February 2009 suddenly moved.

It had never moved before.

It wasn’t supposed to.

Ten minutes later, another legacy wallet drained. Then a third.

By 4:30, Jameson Lopp—now Professor of Cryptography at Harvard—posted one word on X:

“Confirmed.”

The network shuddered. Something ancient had been touched.

And the world’s reserve asset was under attack.