Bitcoin’s quantum countdown has already begun, Naoris CEO says
A veteran hacker warns how quantum computing could quietly dismantle the cryptography securing Bitcoin and blockchains.
A hacker-turned-defender warns that most of the industry is asleep on crypto’s existential threat: quantum computing.
David Carvalho, CEO of post-quantum infrastructure firm Naoris Protocol, began hacking at the age of 13, experimenting with spam emails to attract job offers and gain attention from employers.
Eventually, that curiosity shifted into formal cybersecurity work, where he used the same skills to defend systems instead of probing them. Today, he builds quantum-resilient systems for decentralized networks and claims that the cryptographic foundations of blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum are dangerously outdated.
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