What Bitcoin Did
What Bitcoin Did
Danny Knowles
The Truth About Quantum Computing & Bitcoin | Brandon Black
1 hour Posted Feb 3, 2026 at 12:19 pm.
Quantum Computers and Bitcoin Vulnerability
Introducing Brandon Black
Explaining Quantum Computing
Factoring and Elliptic Curves
Breakthroughs in Quantum Computing
Quantum Computing as an Imminent Threat
The Threat to Bitcoin
Quantum Proof Cryptography
Regular Computers Breaking Cryptography
Confiscating Bitcoin
Impacts on Mining
Implementing a Soft Fork
Logical Devices
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Brandon Black is a Bitcoin software engineer. In this episode we discuss why quantum computing is unlikely to threaten Bitcoin in the foreseeable future, how exaggerated claims around qubit scaling and Shor’s algorithm distort the real risk, what concrete evidence would actually force Bitcoin to act, and how questions around soft forks, post quantum cryptography, property rights, and confiscation should be framed if progress ever becomes real.

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