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    @jon-nyc said: Well it’s not technically just in its current form. Shor’s algorithm breaks the math underlying most public key cryptography. But today it requires millions of years of computation whereas a sufficiently powerful quantum computer could do it in hours or less. With a 500K qubit computer, which is completely unknown whether that's ever going to work. Nobody knows whether quantum computing will ever be practically useful. I highly doubt we'll have a 500k qubit computer in the 2030s. Also, cryptographic algorithms can be changed. It just requires a "hard fork" of the blockchain.