Tyler Whittle, Head of Product at Project 11 , joins us to talk about the intersection of quantum hardware and cryptographic security. He explains why current encryption like RSA and ECC are vulnerable , the progress made by Google’s Willow in noise reduction , and the specific NIST timelines for 2035. Tyler says the industry can prepare for Q-Day with new standards and why the transition is a race against time for global financial privacy and the Bitcoin network.

Notes:

* NIST says to deprecate classical crypto by 2035.

* Google Willow reduces noise as qubits increase.

* 35% of Cloudflare traffic is already PQC.

* Quantum hardware could factor numbers in 18 mo.

* Quantum signatures will increase Bitcoin fees.

* Q-Day risk is mispriced in digital assets.

Timeline:

00:02:05 Quantum Cats

00:04:57 Project Eleven

00:07:33 Project Eleven business case?

00:10:44 What's currently happening in Quantum?

00:18:10 Willow chip

00:25:33 Physical space vs digital space

00:29:10 Wen Quantum unlock?

00:29:56 Error correction

00:34:16 What is a red flag event?

00:38:00 Won't the NSA save us?

00:43:18 Costs of new signature schemes?

00:44:41 Proposals for BTC changes

00:46:31 Old coins, wat do?

00:51:49 Economic actors

00:53:14 Nuking price

00:59:13 Bitcoin vs other blockchains

01:00:46 Block size increase

01:05:56 Quantum money

01:11:04 Timelines

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