- BitMine Immersion Technologies Chair Tom Lee stated that Bitcoin faces a higher risk from quantum computing than Ethereum or Solana because Bitcoin lacks a consensus on preventing Q-Day.
- The theoretical threat allows private keys to be derived from exposed public keys in 9 minutes, with an estimated 6,260,000 BTC currently held in quantum-vulnerable addresses.
- Despite the risks, industry figures like Binance founder Changpeng Zhao have dismissed the idea of an existential threat, while other experts estimate at least a decade before quantum computers threaten Bitcoin.
