🚨GOOGLE JUST GAVE A DEADLINE TO EVERY CRYPTO HOLDER
Recently, Google Research published a paper on quantum computing, and it's terrifying.
Their latest research shows a quantum system could crack a wallet in 9 minutes.
Bitcoin blocks take 10 minutes, which means the gap is now dangerously small.
This changes how people look at security.
When you send a transaction, your public key becomes visible for a short time.
If a powerful system is watching, it can try to take over that transaction before it confirms.
This was once a far future risk.
Now it’s being treated as something that could happen this decade.
The scale of exposure is not small either.
Around 6.7 million BTC are already sitting in exposed wallets.
About 1.7 million BTC from early-era wallets cannot be protected at all.
And the same is for ETH and any other crypto that isn't quantum resistant.
But that's not all.
The resources needed to execute this have dropped from millions of qubits to under 500,000.
Because of this, the industry is now being pushed to upgrade faster.
Google is targeting 2029 for post-quantum security.
And if crypto fails to upgrade before this, it'll be a disaster.