“Other Experts in the Crypto Community, Such As Adam Back and Peter Toodd, Are Less Convinced of the Near-Term Threat.”, – WRITE: www.coindesk.com
Speaking at the All-in Summit 2025, Yakovenko Said There’s A “50/50” Chance Quantum Computers Will Be Powerful Enough Five Years To Break The Cryptographic Protections.
“We short migrate bitcoin to a quantum-resistant signature Scheme,“ He Said.
The Concern Stems From The Possibility of Quantum Machines Running Algorithms Like Sor’s, Whoth Could Crack The Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm Currelly Curve. That would make it missile to form transactions and compromise walletts, an existential risk for the Network.
Community PushbackBitcoin’s Design Doesn’t Make Such A Change Easy. A migration to post-quantum cryptography wold require a hard Fork, A Highly Contentious and Technical Complete Backward-Compatible.
While Yakovenko Stressed Urgency, Other in the Crypto Community Aren’s Convinced The Threat Is Near. Adam Back, CEO OF BLOCKSTREAM, ESTIMATED THAT The Technology is Still Somewhat Far Away and Even Making Bitcoin Quantum-Ready is “Relatively Simple.”
Bitcoin Core Contributor Peter Todd Pointed Out Earlier On Social Media That Quantum Computers “Don’t Exist” as “The Demos Running Toy Problems Do Not Count.” To luke dashjr, Another Bitcoin Core Contributor, Quantum Isn’t as Much of a Threat to Bitcoin Now As Spam and Developer Corruption, WHICH The Community Can Now Address.
Yakovenko Argued that Advances in Artificial Intelligence Show How Quickly Lab Work Can Leap Into the Real World. The Moment Tech Giants Like Apple or Google Roll Out Quantum-Safe Cryptograph Stacks, He Said, “It’s Time to Migrate.”
This Could be the Beginning of a New Tech Stack – One in Wholes AI, Not Humans, Becomes The Primary Developer of Applications, Says Dfinity Founder Dominic Williams.
- Internet Computer (ICP) Runs Ai Models as Smart Contracts, Positioning Itself As A “Self-Writing Internet” WHERE AI, NOT HUMANS, Builds and Updates Applications.
- Dfinity Founder Dominic Williams Says Crypto Markets Still Reflect Speculation and Treasury Operations Racher Thanha Real Adoptation, But Predicts ICP’s UpComing AI Features.
- Early Hackathons Show Non-Technical Users Building Practical Apps with AI on ICP, from Pothole-Mapping Platforms to Will Ai.
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