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Quantum Threat Puts Bitcoin on the Clock

Five takeaways from our podcast interview with Nic Carter on Bitcoin's quantum timeline.
Quantum Threat Puts Bitcoin on the Clock
David Christopher David Christopher
Apr 6, 2026 • 5 min read
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Our conversation on quantum with Nic Carter went live today.

He's one of the few prominent Bitcoiners sounding the alarm about quantum computing's threat to crypto. Over the past few weeks, two papers dropped that moved the quantum threat timeline from "someday" to "soon," and Carter came on Bankless to lay out the damage. Together, they show the hardware threshold for breaking crypto's signature schemes fell by 20x to 50x, and the estimated attack window shrank from months to minutes.

Here are the five key takeaways 👇

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David Christopher

Written by David Christopher

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David is a writer/analyst at Bankless. Prior to joining Bankless, he worked for a series of early-stage crypto startups and on grants from the Ethereum, Solana, and Urbit Foundations. He graduated from Skidmore College in New York. He currently lives in the Midwest and enjoys NFTs, but no longer participates in them.

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