David Hoffman

Coming up next, we've got to talk about quantum.

Is quantum getting ready to come in and just wreck Bitcoin, Ethereum, all our cryptocurrencies?

Or is this just FUD, David?

Are we being alarmist here?

We've got to get into the quantum papers, the research released this week by Google and one other.

There's so many details to cover.

We'll talk about that when we come back.

Incredibly significant.

I think calling it a Q bomb, a quantum bomb is probably right.

It's the biggest.

Well, everyone in crypto was talking about it.

Mainstream news was talking about it.

We have a lot of commentators outside who have weighed in.

It was basically the news of the week and deservedly so.

I think we should start here with Justin Drake, some of his comments.

He said, today, he's talking about when these papers dropped, today is a momentous day for quantum computing and cryptography.

Two breakthrough papers just landed.

Both papers improve Shor's algorithm, infamous for cracking RSA, not Ryan Sean Adams, the other RSA, and elliptic curve cryptography.

The two results compound, optimizing separate layers of the quantum stack.

The results are shocking, he said.