Bitcoin X Quantum | Post by Rodrigo Cardenete

Crypto bros who insist Quantum will not affect Bitcoin more than it will affect the entire economic system conveniently ignore an important fact: Bitcoin and most crypto are decentralized.

Meaning that you can download a copy of the entire Bitcoin chain to your hard drive, trace wallets of whales, and brute-force a public key. Your computer will take centuries, but a future Quantum computer an afternoon.

The quick market value and liquidity of Bitcoin and its (relative) anonymity will do the rest.

Most electronic money, banking networks and stuff they compare it with are centralized systems: if you brute-force (in a wide sense) them you need to talk first with a server that will lock you out, rotate keys, trigger alarms, etc.

Even if you break in, you will leave a more obvious trace than a blockchain.

I'm sure there will be breaches everywhere but, if you balance difficulty with reward, Bitcoin will be the lowest-hanging fruit.