Yeah, 14 years is wild - but the idea that someone brute-forced a private key with quantum tech? Not happening. Not now, not realistically anytime soon.

Here’s the thing: cracking a Bitcoin private key via brute force, even with a fantasy-tier quantum machine, isn’t some overnight hack. You’d need a fault-tolerant quantum computer running millions of stable logical qubits - and not just in a lab, but executing Shor’s algorithm at planetary scale without collapsing into noise. We’re not even close.

Even if (and that's a big if) that tech shows up one day, Bitcoin will be the least of the world’s problems. Banks, military comms, state secrets, SSL, your medical data, everything goes up in smoke. Bitcoin wouldn’t be the first domino - it would be the last.

But here's the kicker: the Bitcoin protocol is adaptable. If quantum threats ever become real, we’ll see a hard fork, key format upgrades, post-quantum crypto integrated - all before Satoshi’s ghost gets rugged.

Until then? Quantum fear is noise. The real game is still social engineering and lost seeds.

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