Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko urged the Bitcoin community to accelerate its efforts to defend against quantum attacks, pointing out that significant breakthroughs in quantum computing may come sooner than expected.
According to a video released on YouTube on Friday, Yakovenko stated at the All-In Summit 2025, "I think the chances of a quantum breakthrough in five years are fifty-fifty." He added, "We should migrate Bitcoin to quantum-resistant signature schemes."
Yakovenko's prediction is based on the fact that with so much technology converging and the rapid pace at which artificial intelligence is moving from research papers to implementation. "It's shocking," he said. "I would encourage everyone to pick up the pace," he emphasized further.
The industry widely predicts that quantum computers will eventually be able to break today's encryption technologies, making security a key concern for users in the blockchain industry. However, many Bitcoin advocates still believe this threat is far off.
Bitcoin wallets generate private-public key pairs using the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm, ensuring security.
Their security relies on the hard-to-solve elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem, which is impossible for classical computers to solve, but may not be so for quantum computers.
David Carvalho, founder and chief scientist of Naoris Protocol, recently stated in June that quantum computers have become so advanced that they could "easily break" Bitcoin's encryption technology in less than five years.
However, upgrading the blockchain from traditional encryption technology to post-quantum secure technology would be challenging, as it requires a hard fork, which many in the crypto community strongly oppose.
Other Bitcoin supporters do not believe the threat is imminent.
Blockstream CEO Adam Back stated that current quantum computers do not pose a credible threat to Bitcoin's encryption technology, but future developments may pose a threat.
Back estimates that quantum computers could reach that level in "about 20 years."
Meanwhile, Samson Mow, founder of Jan3, pointed out in an interview in June that he is not too worried about the threat posed by quantum computing.
"I think it's a real risk, but the timeline might still be ten years out. What I would say is that everything else will fail before Bitcoin does," Mow emphasized.
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Original article: “Solana Founder: Bitcoin (BTC) Must Act Quickly to Beat Quantum Computing by 2030”
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