A Bitcoin sign is seen at a cryptocurrency exchange in Hong Kong on July 11, 2025. (Photo by Peter PARKS / AFP) (Photo by PETER PARKS/AFP via Getty Images)
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“I think we’re four years away from Bitcoin going away,” David McAlvany, chief executive of the gold app Vaulted, said on the On The Margin podcast. “Within four years we have quantum computing, and that is the end of Bitcoin. You can solve all the math problems instantly.”
“I have no idea if it’s four years from now, five years from now, or two months from now,” he added. No machine that could do it exists in mid-2026. But the threat now carries a number.
‘Attackers understood that before security teams’
“What’s a bit unfortunate about it is that attackers understood…
