And probably we have seen some old wallets coming into life and moving to a new Bitcoin address that will not exposed their public key to be somewhat still going to be protected from this quantum threat.

However, there are still some old addresses like in Satoshi and that sparks a lot of debate whether we shouldn't touch it at all. But up to now there are no consensus at all. But perhaps when things with quantum are already here, there might be some movements from devs on how to protect each and everyone. And so we can't deny that the threat is real and everyone should be ready.

Quantum this Quantum that, I'm tired of the whole threads discussing possible threats without any successful hack by a Quantum technology, is this supposed to create another fud, maybe to beginners but people who know how to properly self custody wouldn't take this seriously cause it's no big deal.

Your post is also a speculation, cause even though the breakthrough was achieved by Google, there's no single evidence that it's successfully unlocked any wallet so Bitcoin's network remains safe from quantum threats.

Google is probably just a name and the Threat with quantum computer has to be more emphasized on that it is nothing on bitcoin network so that we don't constitute those that will be spreading the fake news of possible attack by any means, this post particularly is directed to @Questat based on his response, which I think we don't have to even see Google as a more advanced entity like they are no other that could out smart them in research, but that is not where we are heading to, quantum computers cannot attack bitcoin network and that makes the whole idea simple.

We need to consider that the world does not revolve around Bitcoin. We know that Bitcoin is a big part of our lives, but not everything is about Bitcoin.
What I have always said is that if quantum computers are as big a threat as they say, then the world has bigger problems than just Bitcoin. If quantum computers can break every security, then nothing is safe. From the banking sector to the equity market to even military security and cybersecurity as a whole. Nothing is safe.
I agree that quantum computers are a threat, but I don't consider it to be an imminent threat. I don't believe everything will just be sitting ducks for quantum computers to pluck out.
Besides, there is already a BIP-361 proposal that is quantum computer resistance.

Exactly. I first saw quantum computing news even 10 years ago and the mistake of all these articles was that they thought Bitcoin (or anything else) would simply just stop progressing. Bitcoin has undergone upgrades before, and once the threat becomes closer and closer to being actual, the network will progress, upgrade, update, stay ahead.

But you're also right about the old addresses... I think we see them move, or sent to burn address. Then we'll know satoshi is still sticking around

My answer will still be the same which will not make you worry too much because no matter how big the claims will be made by the media about quantum computers, bitcoin always has its own way of making security more sophisticated.

I know maybe this is some kind of pretty big confidence but in the end when we can only make this fear isn't it just going to make us even more burdened by overthinking when it hasn't happened (maybe not even happened).

I still believe in satoshi.

Since the beginning satoshi was already preparing for the possibility about quantum computers even it was 1 decade more when he was in the initial creation of bitcoin. He confidently said this statement and now most of us are afraid to overdo it with quantum computers?

Another breakthrough on quantum computing is something that is to be expected, we're already getting NIST deadline and there is billions of global cumulative investment in quantum technologies.

It'd be weirder if there is no breakthrough after quite some time.

The thing is, if you read the article, this breakthrough happens on smaller scale quantum computer and they need to test it on larger scale before the breakthrough become useful enough to break Bitcoin's ECDSA.

But there is nothing to worry because the Bitcoin developer community is also progressing.

Security measures in check? You forgotten what happens to Coldcard and others, do you ever thought such things could happen to a hardware wallet? Where was the security measures taken, nothing.

There is no strong security in the space, everything can be breach if proper expert, time and technologies are in place to crack it. I no longer believe in anything security check anymore in the crypto industry.

The terms that I have read whenever I read something about quantum computers make me feel like the most illiterate person on Earth haha. Like, to understand this fact you just shared, I read a few articles, asked AI about different terms, and now my mind is boggling. Like, what the hell is happening? Anyway, so far, this is what I have understood about what has happened. If you really understand it all, tell me if I am wrong or right.

So they got a 40-fold reduction in errors while preparing "magic states," which are a resource for creating fault-tolerant quantum computation, right? Now, what Google has reported is that they produce these states with 99.99% logical fidelity. (What is this?) Don't worry, I will tell the readers. Logical fidelity is like a mathematically perfect version of the magic state, like a brick that is 99.99% well-made for a skyscraper, so you can understand how big this is.

But a magic state is a chemical reagent, and making it was their biggest error because I found that it is hard to make. Now, with Google, that error rate has dropped to about 1/40th of what it was before.

Now, why are these magic states important? Because researchers have said they need 500,000 clean magic states per second, nonstop, for the calculation to work to break btc encryption. So we are not there yet. We have just been able to create one brick.

So, OP, if I am wrong, you can shed some light, but so far, this is it. I took my time to understand what and where we are at, even. So they need 500k per second, and so far, they have spent years to achieve one magic state.

Honestly at this point, with my almost zero BTC left, but trying to restart proper DCA, I wouldn't mind something like the latter happening. Not because I want Bitcoin to die but because I actually have faith that no matter what, it'll recover. All the 'bad' things that have happened to it in my life has only made it even stronger in the end