Bitcoin is way above the $100K dream.
Trump and family is launching memecoins.
Elon Musk is proposing blockchain solutions.
All going good. Do we still have to talk about Quantum Computing and spoil the good times.
A little reality check wouldn’t hurt maybe. Are we still calling it a threat? Or are we planning to use it for the good - to evolve?
Google’s Willow Chip
This was back in December 2024, which feels like a lifetime ago even though we are just about a month old in 2025.
Their new Willow quantum chip accomplished in five minutes what would take the world's fastest supercomputers approximately 10 septillion years.
We're talking about a number with 24 zeroes, longer than the age of our universe.
Naturally, this sent shockwaves through the crypto community.
Bitcoin dropped below $100,000, spooked traders dumped $1.6 billion in positions, and social media lit up with doomsday predictions about quantum computers cracking Bitcoin's cryptography.
While Google's breakthrough is remarkable, Willow's 105 qubits are still laughably far from the millions needed to threaten Bitcoin. It's like saying a toddler's first steps are threatening Usain Bolt's world record.
Yet the quantum threat to Bitcoin isn't merely about today's capabilities — it's about tomorrow's possibilities. And more importantly, about the $107 billion sitting in Satoshi's vulnerable old wallets.
The implications are staggering. If quantum computing could crack Bitcoin's cryptography, we're not just talking about the potential theft of billions in digital assets.
We're looking at the potential unraveling of the entire cryptographic foundation that makes Bitcoin, well, Bitcoin.
But before we dive into the existential threats and potential solutions, we need to understand what we're really dealing with. Because the reality of quantum computing's threat to Bitcoin is both more complex and more fascinating than the headlines suggest.