We Study Billionaires - The Investor’s Podcast Network - BTC253: Quantum Computing and Bitcoin w/ Charles Edwards (Bitcoin Podcast)
Episode Date: November 12, 2025Preston and Charles dive into the fundamentals of quantum computing, its transformative applications, and the looming threat it poses to Bitcoin encryption. They break down the distinction between p...hysical and logical qubits, real-world use cases, and the exponential progress in the field. With timelines tightening, they call for urgent collaboration across the Bitcoin and cryptography communities to prepare for a post-quantum world. IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:02:30 - How quantum computing works, including superposition and entanglement 00:08:54 - The difference between physical and logical qubits—and why it matters 00:04:21 - Key industries already benefiting from quantum applications 00:13:07 - Why quantum computing could break Bitcoin’s encryption within 5 years 00:28:04 - The significance of BIP360 and post-quantum migration strategies 00:20:47 - How China's investment and U.S. executive actions shape the race 00:15:41 - Preston’s skepticism of inflated quantum marketing claims 00:22:14 - How AI might accelerate quantum computing development 00:26:06 - Which Bitcoin addresses are most vulnerable to quantum attacks 00:33:32 - Why collaboration is critical to defending Bitcoin's trust model Disclaimer: Slight discrepancies in the timestamps may occur due to podcast platform differences. BOOKS AND RESOURCES Slides on Quantum Discussion. Deck on Quantum Computing. Check out all the books mentioned and discussed in our podcast episodes here. Enjoy ad-free episodes when you subscribe to our Premium Feed. NEW TO THE SHOW? Join the exclusive TIP Mastermind Community to engage in meaningful stock investing discussions with Stig, Clay, Kyle, and the other community members. Follow our official social media accounts: X (Twitter) | LinkedIn | | Instagram | Facebook | TikTok. Check out our Bitcoin Fundamentals Starter Packs. Browse through all our episodes (complete with transcripts) here. Try our tool for picking stock winners and managing our portfolios: TIP Finance Tool. Enjoy exclusive perks from our favorite Apps and Services. Get smarter about valuing businesses in just a few minutes each week through our newsletter, The Intrinsic Value Newsletter. Learn how to better start, manage, and grow your business with the best business podcasts. SPONSORS Support our free podcast by supporting our sponsors: HardBlock Human Rights Foundation Simple Mining Netsuite Shopify Plus500 Vanta Masterworks Fundrise Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm
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Hey everyone, welcome to this Wednesday's release of the Bitcoin Fundamentals podcast.
Today I'm joined by Charles Edwards to talk about quantum computing, what it really is, where
it's headed, and what it means for Bitcoin's security.
We break down the differences between physical and logical qubits, the debate around how soon
Q-Day could arrive, and how upgrades like BIP-360 might protect the network.
We also explore the broader impacts that quantum tech could have on AI,
material science, and finance.
This is one that you will not want to miss,
so let's jump right into the conversation.
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Now for your host, Preston Pish.
Hey, everyone, welcome to the show.
I'm here with Charles Edwards,
and we're talking about a pretty difficult topic,
but we're going to try to make it accessible,
and we're going to try to talk through the reality
of whatever it is or whatever we think it is. And we're talking about quantum computing. This is going
to get pretty Bitcoin heavy, but obviously the topic goes beyond Bitcoin and Charles as a person
that's investing in this space in particular. I'm very curious to go down the paths that go beyond
just Bitcoin itself. But in short, welcome to the show. Excited to get into this with you.
Yeah, likewise, great to be the present. It's been too long. It's been too long. It's been about four or five
is. It's been
aimed. Yeah, it's been way too long.
It's been good.
Been good. I'm excited to have you back on the show, Charles.
Likewise.
So let's start here.
So I made a video about quantum probably back in maybe January of 2024, no, of this year of
2025.
And where I started, I was just trying to define like what in the world is it.
How does it work just so I could wrap my own head around it?
Because if you can't kind of like describe what.
it is and what it's doing, it's really difficult to understand what problems or things that it's
going to solve in the real world. So this is a really hard question. And you would think it'd be
the easiest thing to kind of cover, but I find it to be one of the hardest things to cover,
is what in the world is quantum computing? How does it work? Give a layman's overview from your
point of view as to what this is. I suppose it's, you know, at the most simplistic level,
traditional transistor chips work in ones and zeros, and you can have one state or the other.
As in most things in life, you can be here or there, but you can't be in both places at once.
Things get weird at the quantum level, and Albert Einstein always struggled with this,
and basically wrestled with his whole life even.
It doesn't make logical sense anymore, and you get down to that atomic level,
that things can have multiple states at the same time, or it's probability-based.
So essentially, a quantum computer is trying to replicate the quantum state and physics,
which is potentially being in multiple values at the same time.
So where that becomes interesting in programming
and especially what we're talking about here in encryption,
is you can essentially model multiple values at the same time
and zero in on an optimization really quickly.
So if you're trying to guess a password,
if it's just a pin code and a lock and you're just scrolling through the numbers,
and if it's got three different number options,
you can get there eventually, it'll take you a while.
But with a quantum machine, you can basically simulate all of them at once
more or less and solve things really quick.
And so Google had a really big headline about a year ago.
I think it was with their willow chip where they solved a mathematical equation,
which we're using any supercomputer today would take more time than the entire universe.
So like trillions of years, numbers that we can't even comprehend in our mind.
So it gets really exciting, I suppose, on the industry level,
where we can now unlock new innovations that were just deemed impossible
and solve functions and models that were just considered not unsolvable.
years ago. And yeah, it's expected across multiple industries of basically every industry to have an
impact in multiple improvements. So drug discovery, after Zeneca has been using it and done trials with it,
and I found there's, you know, significant percentage improvements in speed and optimization there.
The defense has also been using it a bit. It's also useful for communications, but, you know,
even landmine detection, that sort of thing. HSPC also has done a case study of proven. It's improved bond
optimization processes. So a lot of people say, oh, quantum's not here today. It's got no practical
use. It is here and it does have use today. It's still very neat early in its development. It's like
if you would use chat TBT five, six years ago, even Altman, the creator of it said it was a
terrible product, right? So quantum is still like a really basic iteration of where it's at today.
So it's just really kind of, it's already proven those use cases and it's on that trajectory
in my mind in the early stages of the hockey stick of any kind of technical adoption.
amazing job. It's a very hard thing to kind of put in the words, especially because it's so complex and so abstract. The use cases there that you were talking about at the end of your comment, I just put up a slide for people that are only listening to the audio. And before we recorded this, I just was kind of curious myself as to what the top uses are for quantum moving forward. And the top four things really kind of come down to material and chemistry simulations, which can lead to all sorts of new innovation. You could
have new batteries, you could have semiconductors, you could use this in pharmaceuticals to come up with
new molecules that can help people recover from whatever type of illness. It's going to be really good
at optimization problems for logistics. So shipping routes, supply chains, traffic flows,
fluid, I can only imagine in like fluid dynamics and like really complex interactions between
things that just, you know, either it's humans or nature itself migration patterns, call it, you know,
whatever. Obviously in the crypto security thing, which we're going to cover at nauseam,
I'm probably in the discussion here. So I'm going to leave that one aside. And then finally,
just in machine learning and AI acceleration, when we look at all the parallel processing
that's happening with the Nvidia chips and all of that, this could potentially be massive in the
implications of what that could do. Yeah, go ahead, Charles. It looks like you had something.
Yeah, and I totally agree. I might as also pull up a couple of slides on my side. You know,
multiple firms seeing performance records across many utilities today.
So protein folding, drug discovery talked about.
So yeah, there's multiple use cases across quantum.
So you mentioned a lot of them.
I've got a list here on my screen, but I can share later maybe.
But it's cryptography, drug discovery, disease, risk predictions, financial modeling,
as you touched on, traffic optimization, anything where you need to optimize on something
or scenario analysis, you can really zero in infinitely faster.
Desire and optimization and post-cl quantum communication.
basically every industry is touched on in some format.
The one thing I wanted to add on just kind of defining what it is or what kind of the key
components are that enable it.
And then maybe something that can help people visualize how this works.
When I was doing the research for the video that I made, which I'll also have a link in
the show notes of people want to watch this, but there's three key components.
You have to have the superposition.
You have to have entanglement of these two atoms or electrons that are in this superposition
state, they have to become entangled. And then the interference that occurs between the
entangled cupits is how you're able to arrive at what, you know, I would refer to as an
immediate solution or an immediate answer to what you're trying to solve for. So for people that
have done eigenmath, have you ever done equations where you got basically like three unknowns? You got
three equations and then you line them up into a matrixe and then you're solving for the answers of the
three different variables. For anybody that's ever done this in math, kind of think of it in this
way where you've got these three equations, you've got the three variables. And instead of having to
go through line by line, first you're solving for A, then you're solving for B, then you're solving for
C and you're substituting them all in there. Imagine kind of lining up those three equations
and the interference of those three variables as they're interacting with each equation
immediately produces the answer
as opposed to having to go line by line
in a very ordered way to solve each one of them
and then piece it all back together.
Through the physics of this superposition entanglement
and interference, you're able to get that immediate answer.
Now, just think of it more than three equations.
You're doing this with countless lines of variables
and whatnot.
Yeah, exactly.
I think that's a good analogy.
And what kind of plays into that today's error rates?
So there's a difference that, and this often comes up as a debate on Twitter and people often think I'm referring to the wrong thing, but there's physical qubits and logical qubits. And this is a set done, they're very simplified. It's basically the processing power of a quantum machine. The difference between physical and logical is essentially there's a large error rate and on most current physical cubits so that what we're trying to get towards is a logical qubit, which is basically error-free. So whenever I refer to qubits and probably in this conversation, I'm referring to
It's a much smaller number, you know, orders of magnitude smaller because there is an error rate today.
And most people will say, oh, well, you need millions of cubits to solve X, Y, Z equation, or to break Bitcoin or any encryption.
It's actually a much smaller number at a logical cubit level.
It's a couple of thousand, that sort of magnitude.
And what people don't realize is the error rates are really dropping significantly in recent years.
And they're finding that the more cubits you add, the error kind of compresses.
So it scales better.
So that's just kind of a sort of a brief summary on the processing units of quantum machines.
I think that this is a super important point.
And mostly because a lot of these labs that are working in this space,
they're publishing their numbers in the news.
And the numbers that I always see are physical cupits.
And they're saying, oh, we're going to have this many hundreds of thousands of physical cupids.
And they don't say physical.
They just say cupits by date, whatever.
And what people fail to realize, going back to this interference piece, the three pieces that I was mentioning earlier, when you entangle the cupits and you're creating these interference waves to get this immediate solution, the problem that kind of arises from this is this noise factor that Charles just brought up. And so when you're doing this with a few, the noise factor is a little bit easier to control. But imagine doing this with tens of thousands of physical cubits that are all. And so, when you're doing this with a few, the noise factor is a little bit easier to control. But imagine doing this. And so,
all entangled and you get any type of heat, you get any type of vibration or anything like that,
and immediately, because they all have to stay entangled in order to provide these, go back to that
eigenvector math, imagine one of the equations getting fuzzy and you can't really know what's
even in the equation because of this disturbance or this noise. Well, you can't solve for the
entire system of equations because that one is out of sync or difficult to see,
or visualize compared in relative to all the other ones that are entangled.
And so this is what makes it really challenging.
I also think that this is what makes the timeline of this really difficult to predict or know
with a lot of precision and why there's such a wide range.
And I know, Charles, you're very bullish on the timeline.
And I'm sure I could go find somebody else very smart on the topic that would be very
bearish on the timeline.
And it just seems like this understanding of the noise.
factor and how that's going to progress or get resolved in the coming decade is really kind of
at the heart of the debate. Would you agree with that? And do you think that I properly quantified
it? Yes and no. So I think currently the rate of qubits is progressing faster than Moore's
law. So if you plot, it's like the Bitcoin chart on a log scale, right? It's a straight line in a
log scale where progression is really consistently improving every year. That's it there. And this is
already a couple years old. But the trend is not slowing down. And the number of
is doubling about every 18 months, so faster than Moore's Law. And at the same time, each year,
we're seeing like an extra nine or an extra granular level of lower error rates. So it's moving
a lot faster than people think. I think the people that say, the timelines I talk about are pretty,
you've got a slide. It looks like the one before, slide three. These are kind of four sources I like
to reference. There's another one you can add to this list, which is the Department of War in the
US, they've recently said that they think there's a tangible risk of Q-Day within three years.
Now, that's pretty aggressive, but it shows a really big confluence of people converging on
this becoming a tangible risk to encryption within the next couple of years.
So this slide here is talking about where could it be a risk for Bitcoin, right?
So Bitcoin, the first thing to note is Bitcoin's secure, the weakest link is elliptic curve
cryptography and Bitcoin's encryption.
And the first thing to notice, that's weaker than RSA.
And so what we're talking about here is when can we break that?
And these four sources kind of converge in around two to nine years from now.
The Jameson Lott is a Bitcoin developer.
He's deep in the space, works in the code.
He's run the security business in Bitcoin for many years.
He says it's a 50% risk in four to nine years.
And remember, if it's 50 in four to nine years, what if it's a 30% risk that's obviously
earlier than that?
There's always some risk earlier than these timeframes.
Pierre Luki is a PhD maths and physics, specialising quantum.
he thinks it's two to six years away.
McKinsey, obviously one of the biggest think tanks in the world,
are saying Q-Day, that's RSA broken, is two to ten years away.
And again, remember, Bitcoin's ECC breaks years in advance
because it's not as strong as RSA.
And then one of the big papers on this matter is that 2017 quantum paper at the bottom,
and they're saying you only need 2,330 qubits.
That's the logical ones, to break Bitcoin's encryption.
And most leading firms right now are projecting that capability
within four to five years. And that's, again, written by multiple doctors at Microsoft,
Iron Q, the biggest quantum company in the world and meta. So all these time frames converge
in the sort of two to nine year bracket with a very high probability in the sort of four to five
years, which is why I talk about us having until 2027 to 2029 to solve this risk for Bitcoin.
And that considers also, you know, we need to think also about lead times for implementing any
change on Bitcoin. So that's a whole other topic to discuss. But there's two,
major discussions and decisions that need to be had in my view on the Bitcoin front. First is
obviously agreeing the technology to upgrade to quantum proof encryption and wallet systems and then
probably 70, 80% of the network will happily move across to that when that decision's made.
And then the second decision is what do we do with the lost coins, the 20 to 30% of coins,
which are on really old addresses like Satoshi's coins, P2PK hash systems, and also any coins that
Yeah, any coins have been lost or just sitting in safe or just fail to upgrade in time.
Those will be taken with certainty by a quantum machine.
There's nothing we can do about it.
And so we need to decide as a community, do we just let that happen?
Or do we initiate some kind of process to burn that in the code?
So there's two main discussion points that need to be, I think, seriously taken in the next 12 months.
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So where I want to start, I first want to push back on the timeline just to kind of provide a
counter argument for people because a lot of people hear this, they're going to immediately
be like, oh my God. And I think we kind of want a little bit of that for moving forward with
like, call it BIP 360 in Bitcoin and get things moving in the right direction. So I want to
provide a counter argument for people to hear, but I also want them to understand the importance of
everything that you just said and whether, you know, the timeline, because we don't know what the
timeline really is going to be here. But my first pushback would just be when I look at a lot of
the people that are providing these accelerated timelines, and by the way, I agree with the 2300
roughly logical cubits as far as like what it will take to break the elliptical curve
cryptography. I think that number is pretty accurate based on all the research that I've done.
So whether that is 23,000 physical cubits to 200,000 physical cubits, I don't know, but it would be
somewhere in that ballpark for people that are hearing numbers that are mostly in marketing
jargon online to get the 2300 logical. You'd probably need anywhere from 20 to 200,000
physical cubits to do that. But my pushback comes from everybody that's listed.
seems to have some type of financial incentive to either get more funding for their lab,
to just kind of move along the entire movement of quantum as opposed to people that are outsiders
that have a lot of expertise, which is really hard to find, by the way,
because everybody that has a lot of expertise is deep in this and they have an incentive
to make sure that it's moving forward and successful.
So that's the first thing.
And then the other like counter argument or where I would push back, I'm just going to pull up a slide from a little bit of research that I did, Charles.
And what this is doing is it's showing the current layout of like where we're at today as far as physical cupits for various organizations that have built a quantum computer, what the physical cubits are and then what the logical cupits are today.
And again, this research isn't real extensive, but like finding anything that has logical cupits in X.
of 24 to 28 is really difficult to even find, where from my understanding, we haven't seen any
quantum processor that has exceeded 100 logical qubits today yet. And I'm curious if that's what
you understand to be true as well, Charles. But the big one for me was it seems to be IBM is
one of the front runners here. What I had read was that they were going to have in excess of
100,000 physical qubits by 2029. And off the IBM website, they're targeting 200 logical
cupits by 2029. And this is coming from, you know, in my opinion, a company that is probably one of
the biggest marketers in the space as far as like what it is they're going to do and when they're
going to do it by. And so four years from now, three years from now, they might be a 200 logical cubits.
And that's, in my opinion, probably their best case scenario based on what their.
literally telling the market. So I'm curious how you view this and whether I'm out to lunch.
And again, I'm not really deep in this stuff. I'm just looking at it really from an outsider's
lens. And I'm just kind of curious how you see that. I think that's what we have to be careful
with because if you survey, there's about 10 to 12 pure quantum companies that are public
traded. There's about another 20 like Google's, Amazon's where they'd partially have a quantum team.
And then there's another sort of 30 private. So there's about 60 roughly firms working on quantum
at the moment. And if you do a survey, a lot of them are not very progressed, but some of the
leading ones are very progressed. And that's what we kind of need to be looking at. So there's
another slide in there. I can bring up a screen off set, send later. But IonQ is projecting
8,000 logical qubits in 2029, more than you need to solve this. Cy quantum, it's a private
company, so they're not having the same incentive. They're saying they're going to have a million
physical in 2028, which is way more than you'll need to break Bitcoin. But what does that equate to in
they're logical. So I hear the really big numbers on the physical side, but then they never say
what their noise factor is, whether it's 10 to 1, 100 to 1, 1, 1,000 to 1. They just completely ignore
that. I don't have that in front of me, but if you go off the relative ratio for the others,
it's definitely in the order of thousands. So, yeah, Duera is projecting 100 in 2026. So 100
logical in 2026. So, and again, it's 30 this year. So 3x. So if you keep multiplying,
these numbers out. Again, the trend is linear. So if we focus on the numbers today of, you know,
10 to 100 or 10 to 50 or 10, you know, those can a range of logical. It doesn't sound that
concerning, but the point is of the exponential growth. And then OQC is saying they're going to have
5,000 logical in 2031. So we're looking at like somewhere between 2028 and 2031. And we
obviously, we don't need everyone to get there. There doesn't need to be one firm there.
The other factor is that China is spending double the US on quantum.
And one of the latest quantum machines that came out there was a million times more powerful than Google's.
And that was a few months ago.
So, you know, we don't know everything that goes on in China.
We don't, you know, there's record-breaking capital being committed to this industry.
There's also $55 billion being committed to globally to quantum and some rumors that Trump's going to release an executive order on this.
Because obviously there's a critical urgency to be a quantum leader, to have quantum supremacy, because once you're a,
ahead of the game in that you obviously have a really significant power in terms of what we call
Q-Day, which is unlocking secrets, potentially financial information and other hacking capabilities,
of course. So it's like it's an informational warfare capability as well. And that's why I think
basically the allocation of money to this industry is only going to go through the roof.
And yeah, and the other thing with these forecasts of QBITs is that they've, these leading
companies have actually been beating their targets the last couple of years. So they've been
hitting these, their timeframes early. So they're not really,
The firms I mentioned, they're not actually wishful thinking.
They've actually been beating their historical forecast.
So, yeah, again, we don't know the exact number, but anywhere between the two to eight
years with a really high probability in the four to five year mark.
And I think anyone who's kind of working in the industry will kind of confer that that is
the trajectory it's on.
And the tech improvements and tech advances for seeing every month and quarter are pretty
breakthrough changes and capability in improvements.
So, Charles, one of the things that I'm just looking at.
looking at AI and AI specialty is being able to find patterns, right? And when we look at one of
the biggest issues, which we've talked about here is the noise factor, it seems like you could
somehow apply AI to help dampen or try to figure out how to remedy a lot of the noise factors
with respect to this and which could accelerate some of these timelines in ways that we're not
expecting today. Is this something that you've read? I mean, this is just an intuitive sense.
Is this something that you've read as being real or?
Yeah, I believe it was Rageddi a couple of months ago had an announcement.
And this is, I think, the second biggest public quantum company in the US.
They basically said that they've been able to use AI to really fast track optimizations
and how they calibrating the quantum machines, right?
So where it would be a lot more manual and human-driven, you know, algorithm-based,
but still slower.
It can be the significant speed improvements on that.
So AI helps speed up.
development of quantum and then quantum ultimately will help speed up different processes for AI in the
future. So they really kind of interdependent and kind of grow off each other.
One of the things that you said earlier in the conversation that confused me a little bit
because when I was doing research on the entanglement piece of this, one of the things that became
clear is you can't take, let's say you could figure out how to do it with a thousand physical
and it gives you know, let's just say it's a 10 to 1 factor that gives you 100 logical cupids right
there and then you kind of stitch those thousand physical cubit processors together in order to
build out a much larger quantum computer. And what I read or what I think I understand is that's not
how this works. Being able to kind of stitch together groups of a thousand physical here, a thousand
physical there doesn't get you over this curve. They have to be completely entangled all of the
cupits in order to be able to solve these much bigger problems, call it like cracking the
encryption on Bitcoin. Is that true? And if not, is there a way that you can partially do it or just
help us kind of understand the mechanics of that? Because I think for a lot of people, they'll
start thinking in that direction because that's how normal day processors, you have dual core,
you have quad core processors. And they're thinking that maybe they can apply that to quantum.
And I just don't suspect that it works that way. Yeah, it is a bit different. I'm probably not the right
person to be getting into the technicals of the quantum engineering side, but four other businesses
I'm focusing on. But I suppose my high level comment would be that the announcements I've been
seen last year from these firms is that they're seeing an improvement in error rates when
they're adding qubits to the equation. So it does have a scaling benefit. And they're also
seeing each year like a reduction in error rates. So it's very easy to focus and pick holes
like in any problem in technology. Same thing could be said for AI, five.
six years ago.
Oh, it's not capable of this, or it doesn't scale that way, or the results are garbage,
it's spitting out, or it's got lots of downtime.
A lot of these things are parallels, I think, with quantum.
And, you know, McKinsey, BCG, they're expecting multi-trillion economic value across
industries within 10 years.
And as well, you've got Q-day very highly likely within 10 years.
And I believe, as I said, based on those forecasts, it's sort of two to five-year range.
And then if we have that, we have a bit of a hockey stick moment, a Chachibati moment,
if you will in the sort of coming years, which it's very easy to focus on problems. And humans are
really good at generally solving problems. And, you know, we're programmed to think pessimistically
and then focus on problems. But usually the innovation of these kind of things will win. And as I said,
it's really looking at that log chart where the progress is exponential and fast than Moore's law
that I'm confident a lot of these things are just going to be continued to be solved on as they have
been itch here. I'm going to pull up a chart. We're going to transition a little bit more into Bitcoin
and how this impacts Bitcoin.
And then I would be really curious going beyond Bitcoin what you think some of the implications
are.
But to frame this up for people, I've got a chart here that lays out the type of key that
the public key, private key relationship that Bitcoin is built around for all the
addresses and the output type that you have, when Bitcoin was first founded and stood up,
we were using P2PK and this is pay to public key.
and this is the primary set of keys that are the issue.
And with my research, and I'm curious if this is what you also have found as well, Charles,
is it's about 25% of the Bitcoin that currently exist are in this key type,
which makes it vulnerable to Shores algorithm if a quantum computer with the size that we talked about earlier existed.
So that's a significant portion.
Now, I think it's also important from 2010 to 27.
that they went to a pay to public key hash.
So you would take that public key, you would hash it so that it's not known what the public
key is unless you actually sign a transaction.
And so anybody that has, and this is a majority of the Bitcoin, 75% of the Bitcoin, are already
in this P2PKH or higher configuration.
And so it would be protected in the interim as long as you didn't spend anything,
that that would be
Interim.
They would.
Very interim.
Giving you a little bit of assurance, I guess, is the way to frame that.
But I wanted to put this slide up so people can kind of see the timeline of when these
different types of key outputs were, or the address outputs were used and what
they've migrated to through the years.
And let's talk about, Charles, what the solution is, because people are looking at this.
They're probably hearing this conversation
and saying, oh my God, this sounds really scary.
But there's BIP 360.
Beast Hunter was the main author of this,
and it's out there for public purview to audit and look at.
And as a soft fork to Bitcoin,
meaning nodes that are running the older software,
there's no issue with running the older software
if people would upgrade or migrate to this new version
that he's proposing with the BIP 360.
But talk us through what that is and how that would work
and kind of in application,
what would that mean for people
that currently hold Bitcoin
and their own keys
to migrate over to something like this?
Yeah, I think,
so I agree with you,
the 25% ballpark figure
for the earliest key
hashing process of the P2PK,
I think it was the oven screen at the top.
So that's Satoshi's coin,
and it's about 125 billion of those
and then other wallets.
The key thing with that
is that when they write the blockchain,
it's exposing or showing their public address.
So everyone does know,
everyone who is in Bitcoin,
has a public address and a private key. And the public address, obviously, is your wallet,
and then the private key allows you to access it and move funds. If you know a public key,
then a quantum machine can theoretically kind of back calculate what your private key is. And
technically computers today could do that. It would just take infinite amount of years and you'd
never get there, right, in our lifetime. So that's not a risk. And that's how all encryption essentially
works today. But given what we talked about, the quantum, you can configure multiple options at at the same
time, it can close in on a solution to the private key very quickly, again, once we get to
that sort of two, three thousand cubic level. So those first wallet address systems like
the Stoshi coins are exposed, but it's also any public keys that are published. So a lot of
the exchanges, for example, have their wallets and public addresses no one. So again, all those can
move across to a new system like BIP 360 and the quantum BIP. This is, again, the code improvement
suggestions of a couple of Bitcoin developers. So there's solutions to get the active addresses
across, but there are still other public key exposed wallets which may not necessarily move across
in time. So yeah, as you kind of mentioned pressing the solutions to this, especially for the
wallets that are active and managed and can move across. My point is that Stosh's coins,
largely everyone believes he's not going to be moving those coins ever again because maybe
not around it anymore. And a lot of the other early coins are just lost, right? People
lost their wallets. They lost hard drives into the landfills and all sorts of funny stories
from back in the day. So a lot of those coins will be unlocked no matter what we do by a quantum
machine in that sort of two to eight year range. And that's sort of 20 to 30 percent of supply.
We don't know the exact number, but in that region. And that's, again, as mentioned,
that's something we need to discuss the community and how we're going to manage that.
For the quantum solutions that are out there, the BIPs, my kind of take on it is I'm not here to say what's the right solution.
You know, there's a few proposals out there.
I just want to get the community talking about this and closing in and zeroing in on a consensus.
Because as you and I know, consensus in Bitcoin is a viable.
A mass.
It's a mass.
You know, I basically want to initiate like block wars, but for quantum because I'm basically just concerned about the timelines at this point.
Right.
So the technology solutions are there.
And I think if we all agree today on the solution we could, I think we could agree and get it out in time.
But the problem is that if we did agree today, the lead time to get everyone across to this new wallet infrastructure or this soft fork or hard fork, whatever it is, is going to take six to 12 months.
And that's limitations of transactions for reports.
So if you look at the flow through a Bitcoin in 30 days, and this is capped based on 10 minute block times, the number of transactions, the network can actually process.
If everyone with, say, over $100 in their wallet was to say I'm going to move across to a new wallet, which is this quantum proof encrypted wallet, that's going to take 30 days assuming no other traffic.
If you want to do a test transaction as we usually do, because you know, you might have a significant sum of money on there and you don't want to lose it, then that double it is 60 days, right?
Add in organic traffic, probably double it again.
You're basically at six months in a best case scenario of everyone like agreeing and moving at the same time.
So where I get concerned is that we know consensus takes time, probably best case a year, which is why I'm basically posting all the time.
I want to see a solution agreed in 2026. If we get it solved in 2026 and agreed, then we might have a year to get 2027 to roll it out.
And that's at the kind of leading edge risk frontier, I suppose, for when a quantum machine could break Bitcoin, right?
Hopefully it's further out. But if we have the kind of Blasey approach that, oh, it might be four years, it might be 10 years, or 15 years,
15 years. If we're one minute too late on upgrading this and getting everyone across, the whole
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All right.
Back to the show.
So, Charles, I think you're being really conservative with these numbers that you're saying
as far as how long the migration would take because I've run this math back when I made my
video back in January.
And then I just, while you were talking, I ran it again because the numbers that I remember
were much longer than that. And when I ran it again for any type of pub key that has over a hundred
US dollars worth of value in it, if you were going to migrate all of those addresses that have
over $100 worth of Bitcoin in them, starting right now, it's saying that that would take anywhere
from 10 to 30 months in order to migrate all of that over. And I think part of the issue is just the
sheer size of the transactions now. So when you migrate over to, and this is using BIP 360 as kind of like,
let's say that was passed, and you can see it here on the slide, post quantum signatures are huge,
often 1 to 20 kilobytes versus the 70 bytes that they are today. So when you're comparing
the block size and you're making these transactions into the current block, assuming that the
block sizes don't change, there's not nearly as much space to put these in there. And then you just
kind of assume if everybody's making that migration that you kind of need to do it right now,
assuming that the timeline, and again, these timelines, who knows what the timelines actually are,
folks? We don't know what the timelines are. But let's say it's four years from now. Let's say
it's five years from now. And we need to shoot for an aggressive timeline to get the engineering in
place and the testing and people to start migrating their keys over to this. It could take a while
for everybody to rotate their keys out.
And this is something that I don't hear anybody talking about at all.
It's like how long the migration will take once the solution is there.
And we're not even talking about the fighting that's going to happen.
It's going to be chaos.
It's going to be chaos.
Yeah.
It's not going to be pleasant, I don't think.
If I do a tweet just on this topic, I get blasted.
Yes.
By like totally polar views and total disagreement on both sides.
It's inconvenient.
That's what I found because I talked about it.
In fact, I know this episode is going to create all sorts of drama just by posting this.
People are.
And you know what I've discovered?
It's an inconvenient thing to talk about.
People don't, which tells you that's where you need to be focusing your attention as opposed to a filter discussion.
Like, this is a real thing that needs to be solved and it needs to be worked on.
And I'm not saying something needs to be passed today.
But the amount of rigor and attention that's been looked at with.
respect to BIP 360, I think is really like been neglected, I guess is my point of view.
Absolutely. And that's why I've been really getting loud on this. You're right, but my timeline
of migration of six to 12 months is super optimistic. I think you had almost one year to three years,
right, or in that realm, sorry, five years, potentially one to five years is what you're saying. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm
sorry, I use the word conservative and that's probably not the right word. The word is it's an
optimistic view of like how long. Yeah. So I know I was trying to be.
bit optimistic, but you know, you've obviously considered even the size of each block in the BIP 360
solution. And that's a good point. It is bigger. And so that's something we even really thought about.
And maybe it needs to reopen the block size discussion as well in order to allow a faster migration.
And you want to talk about serious drama. Yeah. I'm going on that path.
The thing, like if the migration time is five years, I think we're done, right? Because we're not
going to get to agreement for at least a year. Yeah. So this is why we need to be talking about.
and say, okay, well, if that's not going to work, then maybe we need to increase
this, block size or change this or that, whatever it may be to make sure the timeline's achievable.
So at the end of day, I'm optimistic we'll solve it in time, but it's not going to happen unless
we have these hard discussions now.
And it's kind of like, you know, a little bit of pain and, you know, difficult discussions now
in order to avoid a nightmare scenario in five, six years or two years or in the future.
So I think that you're right.
We just need to bring light to this and create conversation to this and a centralize
probably a centralized place to be resolving this. It's not really even clear to me where do we all
converge to solve on this, right? And they agree something, right? Like at the moment, it's just a
tornado of arguments where, you know, I see half the people are starting to agree with it now.
Like, whereas I when I was tweeting about this a year ago, I'd get zero engagement. And now people
like, okay, yeah, this kind of starts to make sense. And that's where it was for me. I've been watching
this for a few years, like quietly, occasionally posting about it for a few years, starting to get
myself a quantum hedge in the last few years. And then now I'm like, I just can't wait
any longer because I've been invested all of my time and energy like life and death basically
in the last eight years in Bitcoin, building models for Bitcoin, open, open source on chain
models for Bitcoin, try and value it, find intrinsic value for it, living and breathing it, effectively
being leveraged long Bitcoin in my sort of personal situation for that timeframe. And it's like,
I want this to survive. And so, like, we have to have this hard chat now to get to that
solution or it's just all for nothing.
Yeah.
I think another big challenge with it is most people just have, and myself included,
just have no clue how this actually works.
Like, I've done some research.
I try to understand the terminology.
But at the end of the day, I truly do not understand quantum and how it really works.
And all of that, I think it's such an esoteric idea.
And people hear it.
And it's always just been this canary in the coal mine that was like a false cue in the past.
And anytime it was brought up, everybody just rolled their eyes and walked away.
But the impetus for me to make the video back in January, I saw Elon Musk retweet the Microsoft announcement when they did the Myerana 1 topological cubit processor.
And this was kind of a breakthrough in how they were going about trying to build it from a physical standpoint.
And they hadn't achieved any type of logical cupits at that point.
But there was an announcement by the Microsoft CEO that by, I think he said, 2027.
they were going to have a million cubit processor was the quote.
And this really got my attention because I knew some of the basic numbers that you've kind of put laid out in some of the slides here.
And I heard a million cubits.
Well, like, how many logical cubits is that?
And of course, I couldn't get an answer anywhere.
I looked online.
But this June is where I found that IBM had talked about hitting 200 logical.
But I still don't know where the Myerana one, Microsoft one, is going to go.
So part of the challenge in understanding this space and why I think a lot of people will immediately just roll their eyes as opposed to take it serious is I think that the industry is hiding a lot of like what their actual logical cupits are.
There's confusion in the terminology.
There's confusion in the tech.
And because there's so much posturing and trying to get dollars for their labs and like all of that, I think nobody takes it serious.
And I think everybody's just like, ah, it's nothing.
But I agree with you.
It might be AI 2021 when everybody was like, oh, that's nothing.
That's never going to be anything.
And look at where we are four years later, it's like we're talking about AGI.
I mean, that thought process to me reminds me a lot of how everyone else thought about Bitcoin
five to 10 years ago.
Yeah.
Where the common consensus is going to zero.
It's a scam.
Yeah.
You know, it's money for drugs, whatever.
It's the common approach.
I'll research it and Google it for 10 minutes and look at a few news articles and they agree
with what I'm saying and so therefore I'm done.
Whereas, you know, I think
Michael Taylor said you need to spend whatever it would be
100 hours or many hours to
really understand what's going on. And if you do it
and you go into the annual
reports, the statements of what
all these, all these companies are doing,
those logical cubic numbers are not
really that hidden. A lot of them are available
and the timelines
are pretty available too, right?
Some of the ones I touched on, I'll share some slides
as well after this. But yeah, I just think
it's coming. And if we put our head in the sand,
because we're not educated on it.
That's a big problem.
And it's many comparables like AI.
It's Bitcoin a few years ago, right?
It's doing the work.
You don't have to be an expert on quantum engineering to assess the real risk of this.
Putting together the analysis and the results of others are experts in the space.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think the one thing we can all agree on is like why are we not making this a bigger
conversation point and why is the community not kind of rallying around getting a solution in place?
and I think it's starting to happen now.
Getting a lot of energy around it in the last couple of weeks, especially.
And I think that's good.
And it just needs to get a lot louder to get the discussions going and the right people
and the right places to converge in solutions.
People reviewing the code, right?
You know, if people don't agree with different elements of the code,
that all needs to be happening now so that we can converge on a solution next year.
Let's go into this part of the conversation and then we'll wrap it up.
You're investing in this space.
Okay.
Yeah.
You know, for, I mean, this is an investing podcast.
Oh, we're always looking for investment opportunities.
Help us wrap our head around like the investment side of this.
I could only imagine how CAPEX intensive some of this research is with, for all intensive purposes, and correct me if I'm wrong, zero utility today.
Like, you're not going out and using any of these quantum processors that like actually no businesses are using these things yet.
But, you know, based on the timelines and the things we're looking at, that day could be on the horizon, call it in five years, within five years that it's actually being put into practical use and it's helping people make money and provide value into the market.
So how do you think about this when we're so early in the timeline with a bit of fog there kind of understanding where the hockey stick curve is going to start bending and turning into real value for customers?
Yeah. So the first thing to note is that revenues of these companies are going up between 5,900 percent.
a year. So there is
significant revenue year and year.
Because you can use it. So quantum is
on every major cloud platform today.
Google, Azure, AWS.
So you can hire and use quantum machines now.
There's some stability issues. There's all sorts of other issues.
But like we talked to,
there's multiple use cases today that firms are using
it in drug discovery,
in financial optimizations.
And it's showing improvements in those processes
already today. So that's another common misunderstanding is
that they think there's no use case. The other thing is there's a whole sector of quantum security,
which is a whole industry of consulting, but also services, sorry, tech to roll out quantum proof
encryption across every asset class. So the biggest mistake some people make is that, oh, if they're
going to break Bitcoin, they'll just break the banks or they'll break some other tech first.
But traditional banks and other traditional institutions of mostly quantum proof already already
already started to upgrade their encryption to be quantum proof. But it's, but it's a lot of,
even where they haven't, most banks and platforms stay at 2FA.
And 2FA is quantum resistant because if you only get a few attempts at 2FA,
you can't simulate an infinite number of solutions to solve a 2FA key.
Again, this is assuming you're storing it all in the right way and that sort of thing.
But a generic login today is much more quantum resistant than Bitcoin.
And then the fact that these networks are centralized and they can always roll back if something goes wrong.
The whole philosophy of Bitcoin is that is not a thing.
So Bitcoin is the number one asset class on the chopping block.
It's also the biggest honeypot.
And it's also got the nearest frontage risk horizon of basically every asset class.
Jumping back to your question on revenues, they're still very small today.
And the valuations are not justified by the revenues.
But as I said, they're doubling in many cases year on year.
And I don't think it's reasonable to value an emerging tech that has limited utility on its revenues today.
Because if you did that with AI five years ago, it would be worth zero as well.
You have to really look at the trends of where the development's going, the qubits, the error rates,
what the mathematical papers are saying the capabilities will be when you get to multi-thousand
cubic capability, the variety of industry applications and just the jump step and innovation is going
to happen when we have that capability in the next few years and Q-Day also in the next few years
being the risk to all traditional encryption. So you have to value it in that scenario, right?
So if a quantum firm can, and again, the legality of this is very questionable, but if a quantum
firm was to take 100 billion of Satoshi's coins in three years, they would fund all of quantum
development for the last decade.
So, you know, and maybe that may not happen by a US firm, but I'm sure there's other countries
I'd be very happy to do that.
Yeah.
And that's, I'm not saying we should value it based on crime, but that's the kind of level of
unlocking capability and value that I believe is coming in the very near future.
Do you find that like we were talking about the Microsoft's Myerana 1 and you just look at the sheer capital that a company like Microsoft has to put behind further and further investments in R&D to see this as a reality?
Do you find that they're going to have a huge advantage relative to some of the smaller firms that are going after this or is this kind of a with intelligence today?
It's just so accessible via AI and just kind of immediately sniffing out what the other competitors doing.
Is there a competitive mode around the intellectual property and like what's happening inside of some of these smaller labs versus the larger ones that have tons of capital to throw behind them?
Yeah, great question.
Like the world today's much less siloed.
It's hard to conceal information and it's easy to leverage others work, which probably also speeds things up a little bit.
But yeah, I think it's really hard to pick who the windows will be.
with Bitcoin and crypto five, 10 years ago, it was pretty obvious that Bitcoin was the king,
and we all were pretty aligned on that. Whereas with this asset class, like I said, there's
about 60 different players. How do you know who's going to be the leading edge of this?
Especially when often they're working on completely different technology solutions to come about
the same, so different processes to come about the same solution, very different directions,
and some of them probably will fail. So I don't have a great answer to that. I think obviously
the big tech firms will have huge budgets to deploy in R&D, and that will continue.
continue to scale. I think you're seeing Navidia, like Jensen, the start of the year, he said,
quantum's 15 to 30 years away. And a couple of years, a couple months later, he said,
I was wrong about the timeline. And then in June, he said, we're at an inflection point for quantum.
And then last month has been investing billions in quantum. So I really like this slide.
You did a great job presenting this in a presentation you did recently. And I'm just throwing it up
so people can see it. You can see this progression happen within months of him saying it's 15 to 30 years
away. And that was in January.
back when I made this video, that video I keep referencing.
And then in March, he says, I was wrong about the timeline.
June, we're at an inflection point.
And then he's investing, what is it?
He's investing billions of dollars into the space.
Yeah.
So for me, this is also a lot like Bitcoin because we saw Jamie Diamond and various other banks
for years ago saying, oh, it's never going to happen.
Yeah.
Ray Dalio is saying, oh, it's a joke sort of thing.
You know, zero allocation.
And then suddenly, like, click like a year or two later, either there,
unleashing all their ETFs or they're recommending it in their portfolios or they're saying,
I personally own it. It's the same thing. It's so easy to dismiss ideas and concepts when you
look at it superficially, but then when you dive in, you realize, wait a minute, this is something
significant. And as always, you follow the money, right? Often these guys will say one thing. And then
if you follow what the money is doing on their side, it's doing the exact opposite. So yeah,
I can't say who the winners will be. And that's why for me, a diversified allocation is
important. As he said, I hold quite a bit of Bitcoin. Some people will think maybe I'm
short or having some weird positioning about this. No, I actually want this to work. I'm
long Bitcoin. I have more Bitcoin than quantum. I think Bitcoin will go higher in the near term
provided we solve on this. But with that, that needs to be acted on really quickly, I think,
in the next sort of 12 months to get towards a solution. And for me, at the same time,
it's important to have a quantum hedge. So a diversified basket of these assets. There's not really
a great way to do that. And that's why we spent the last few months building an index
of quantum assets and of pure quantum companies.
We've published that live on our website,
and we're currently in the works towards making a US-listed quantum ETF.
So I think this is an important hedge for me.
I still obviously ultra-committed towards solving this for Bitcoin,
and I said to my position in Bitcoin is significant,
but I can't take that risk anymore,
and that's why I've been speaking up about this so much recently.
Well, Charles, at the very least,
getting the conversation going is super important.
And I think that you do that really well.
You present the facts as they exist.
We both acknowledge we don't know the timeline,
but to sit here and act like it's not going to happen,
I think is the fool's errand more so than anything.
And, you know, like you,
I just want to see people start taking this very seriously
and start working towards the solution.
Because, I mean, the BIP 360 is already out there.
Let's beat that around and let's kind of figure out a way
to get it implemented or get something that's even better implemented.
it.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Love it.
We'll have links in the show notes to all the things that you mentioned there.
Anything else that you want to highlight before we close this out?
No, I think that's it.
I just keep reiterating the same points.
But yeah, as you say, we've got to talk about it.
We've got an hour in the solution.
We've got to critique the solutions, provide better ones if it's necessary and get consensus
as soon as we can.
Love it.
Well, thanks for coming on today.
And great to see you again.
It's been way too long.
and I really enjoyed it, Charles.
My pleasure. I enjoyed it too.
Thanks, Preston.
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