Quote from: krishnapramod on August 17, 2017, 10:40:55 AM

Quote from: CriminologyProf on August 17, 2017, 10:06:17 AM

I have heard people talk about how quantum computing could kill Bitcoin, so would Bitcoin be able to "fork off" into a quantum resistant blockchain in a kind of hard fork when the time comes?

If Quantum computers become a threat to bitcoin then quantum resistant new cryptography standards can be incorporated into the bitcoin protocol as a softfork or a hardfork.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Quantum_computing_and_Bitcoin

Quantum Resistant Ledger

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1730273.0

After reading this article i think its very hard to bruteforce bitcoin network for private keys but not impossible.
Also there's a company claims that it can make a quantum computer with 1000qbits.
However this claim is not confirmed