Bitcoin and Quantum Computing – a three-part research series
A three-part deep dive into quantum computing
Bitcoin and Quantum Computing – a three-part research series launched on April 11, 2026 with 6 votes, #1,677 of 21,248 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
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No hype. No FUD. Just engineering. A deep dive into what's real, what's not, and what's being built. No. Breaking secp256k1 (Bitcoin's elliptic curve) requires approximately 1,200-2,300 logical qubits running Shor's algorithm with fault tolerance for minutes. As of 2026, the most advanced quantum computers have 48-94 logical qubits and can only sustain computation for milliseconds. The largest number ever factored by a quantum computer is 15 . No quantum computer has ever solved a meaningful elliptic curve discrete log instance. Zero cryptographic systems have been broken by quantum computers to date. There is no operational quantum threat to Bitcoin today. Expert predictions range from…from bitcoinquantum.space
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