The mounting fears that leaps in quantum computing could fundamentally break Bitcoin (BTC) grew once more on March 31, 2026, when Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) published a landmark whitepaper on the topic. Indeed, the document – author in cooperation with Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN), the Stanford Institute for Blockchain Research, and the Ethereum Foundation as collaborators – showcased that the danger the new technology could uncover a private key using a public key is credible and one of the co-authors, Justin Drake, even opined on X that the event might come as soon as 2032. Today is a monumentous day for quantum computing and cryptography. Two breakthrough papers just landed (links in next tweet)