BitMine Immersion Technologies Inc. Chair Tom Lee said on Monday, April 5, that Bitcoin faces a higher risk from quantum computing than Ethereum or Solana.
Tom Lee warns Bitcoin faces higher quantum risk than Ethereum or Solana; Q-Day by 2028 exposes 6.26M BTC to key extraction. Ethereum and Solana build quantum resistance, but Bitcoin lacks consensus on migration—protocol update requires 305 days of downtime.
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(NYSE:BMNR) Chair Tom Lee said on Monday that Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) faces a higher risk from quantum computing than Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) or Solana (CRYPTO: SOL).
Is Lee Sounding an Alarm for Bitcoin?
During an interview with CNBC, Lee acknowledged the looming threat, popularly known as "Q-Day", when quantum computers become powerful enough to break standard internet encryption.
Lee said that Google Researchers believe Q-Day could come as early as 2028.
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