[vkomega]

Counterpoint to the article's interviewee claiming that the cryptopocalyse will occur with forewarning: Nation states may seek to keep QC advances secret.

Also, QC breakthroughs can happen overnight.

Combine those two realities and we could have an institution or govt wielding a Shor's-enabled QC in private without notice nor fanfare.

[londons_explore]

Theft from a bitcoin wallet using QC is hard to hide though.

Sure, the first few instances will be dismissed by the community as 'someone stole your keys', but after that I assume people would notice...

[vkomega]

There is far more to be gained via silent espionage on the internet at large. It's worth far more than all cryptocurrency.

Whoever is hoarding pcap's encrypted with ECC will have a field day. This is the reason for the urgent push by NIST/NSA to roll out qc resistant crypto.

Cryptocurrency is a sensational sideshow in comparison.