by Olivier Acuña Barba •Published: July 29, 2025•21:39•4 minutes read
This is the quantum computer IBM featured at a CES event in Las Vegas four years ago | Credit: Audio Und Werbung/Shutterstock
Bitcoin has changed the way money is defined. It built a trillion dollar network from work proof and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC). The price of King of Cryptocurrencies rose from just $0.05 per BTC in the early 2010s to a record high of $123,000 on July 14, 2021.
Today, it grabs close to the $118,000 mark with a market capitalization of $2.5 trillion, ranking remarkably at No. 6 as the most valuable asset on the planet, with only Amazon (5th), Apple (4th), Microsoft (3rd), Nvidia (2nd), and Gold (1st).
The wonderful combination of mathematics and decentralization has made it strong. We brought everyone from Crypto Deyhards to BlackRock. But it doesn’t matter if the co-founders of three existential threats discover it.
And the threat is represented by quantum computing. This can be faster than experts want to believe they will take a full step. And if it already represents its fatal appearance, current risks, defective entropy, and AI, you have a recipe for a global disaster.
Decompose three threats
Entrokey Labs co-founders Eric Dresdale and David Harding break this down to make this even clearer Exclusive interview with atlasgazette. They explain that quantum computing threatens encryption as it can solve the most complex mathematical problems in seconds and break widely used algorithms such as RSA and ECC.
The ability to amplify risks by analyzing dataset trolls and detecting patterns in cryptographic systems and leverage human implementation errors, said David and Eric skillfully developed software tools to protect computers and even national security against AI and quantum computing threats.
There is also “faulty entropy.” Also says David, CEO of Entrokey Labs and former general manager of Cardano’s Atala Prism, a sovereign digital identity platform. “It exacerbates the threat of AI and quantum computing by creating vulnerabilities or weaknesses in key generations and encryption.”
The President of Dressdale Entrokey LabsIn addition to Harding’s explanation, “Three Threats That Make Your Systems Crackable.” Together, the three threats mentioned by David and I can very well undermine the security of cryptocurrency, networks, and all digital systems. They could lead to data breaches, economic losses and compromise the privacy of everyone on a global scale. ”
Harding and Dressdale confirm that they were previously warned. Quantum computers could tear Bitcoin’s code within five years. They don’t just threaten your wallet. They can rattle investors’ trust and destroy trust in the entire ecosystem. BlackRock’s recent Bitcoin ETF Submit Make it clear: Quantum Computing can “broke” the encryption foundation of a network.
Q-Day is now
“Are you ready for Q-Day? Do you know what Q-Day is? If not, you’re hooked on a digital apocalypse that hasn’t come. It’s already here.” I wrote it.
Q-Day is not a distant theoretical event, he added. “The most powerful supercomputers currently require billions of years to crack the latest encryption that protects crypto wallets, blockchains, digital banking assets, and WhatsApp chats, but quantum computers can do that at lunchtime.”
SHA-256 is not an issue
While many of the cryptography still firmly believe in SHA-256, the widely used cryptographic hash functions, including Bitcoin, remain robust, they face potential vulnerabilities if hackers decide to stolen and go in and out of stolen millions using a combination of quantum computing, flawed entropy, and AI.
“But Sha256 is not an issue,” Harding says. “It’s important exposure that’s killing us. The reused addresses, weak entropy of hardware wallets, and insufficient randomness of embedded devices have led to already stolen bitcoins.” He also said, “AI is beyond the ability to find those cracks on a massive scale. As we wait for Quantum to break Sha, we miss the real-time violations that we’re unfolding now.”
Dressdale said, “Most people who bet on Sha256’s timeline ignore the real issues, the key layers. AI can identify non-speeds that have already been reused, defective entropy, or careless wallet implementations, while Quantum can erase what remains.
“We don’t need the theoretical future threat to act. We are already under attack by faster, smarter pattern seekers,” he warns.
Sledgehammer, Lockpick, Solution
Harding is frankly saying everyone understands: “Quantum is a Sledgehammer, but AI is a lockpick. Every flawed wallet, every weaker source of entropy, every sloppy key reuse becomes a high value target.”
Recently, Jean-Michel Azzoppardi, cybersecurity expert and fintech consultant; I said “Generative AI is easily accessible, and so on, “AI has introduced a new paradigm in cybersecurity. The tools once government ownership and large technology in the hands of ordinary people, by definition create incentives for abuse.
For example, Entrokey Labs has a groundbreaking software-only solution that addresses $100 trillion global issues.
By leveraging a unique entropy computer with a high-entropy random number generator and advanced AI-driven pattern recognition, EKL is validated with eight computational measurements and generates Quantum and AI proof keys in seconds, far surpassing Nist’s two statistical standards.
There’s no need to beat BTC to cause a crisis
The latest six-month Web3 Security Report does not address the same concerns, but EuroWeekly News A lookblockchain security company Hacken bares the effects of the human error, the flaws in smart contracts, and the compound interest of AI-driven exploits that led Web3 to lose $3.1 billion to hacking and cybersecurity breaches than everything in 2024.
“2025 was a wake-up call,” said Yevheniia Broshevan, co-founder of Hacken. “Cybersecurity is no longer a technology issue. It’s a business enabler. Projects not only integrate operational resilience and invest in security, but also reduce risk, build trust and protect innovation.”
These are the threats we face right now, not 10 years from now, Harding and Dressdale agree, urging the Web3 community not to continue to address these security threats. Plus, they said you don’t really need to break Bitcoin itself to cause a crisis.
“If an AI or quantum attack begins a wallet, exchange, or custodian compromise, the outcome is the same: panic, loss of trust, execution of exits. Perception is cryptographic security, and the founder of Entrokey Labs, who developed software solutions for three threats, is more vulnerable than people think.
