Tim Hwang is joined by FAI Nonresident Senior Fellow and UCLA quantum scientist Prineha Narang to react to new research showing that quantum computing might ruin cryptography way sooner than we think. We cover: when scientists might achieve fault-tolerant quantum computing, how careful you should be with your crypto wallet, how long it’ll take for quantum scientists to be able to brag about their work at Thanksgiving, and whether “Q Day” is our generation’s Y2K.

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More on Prineha’s lab at UCLA:

https://naranglab.ucla.edu/

“Safeguarding cryptocurrency by disclosing quantum vulnerabilities responsibly,” the Google Quantum AI paper we mentioned:

https://research.google/blog/safeguarding-cryptocurrency-by-disclosing-quantum-vulnerabilities-responsibly/

“Shor’s algorithm is possible with as few as 10,000 reconfigurable atomic qubits,” the Oratomic paper we mentioned:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28627

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