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MattPalmer1086today at 7:44 AM0 repliesview on HN

All serious financial businesses already have a quantum strategy and are actively working on transitioning their cryptography to post-quantum secure algorithms.

Bitcoin doesn't use 256 bit encryption, unless you mean 256-bit hashing. The cryptographic algorithms that are mostly under quantum threat are asymmetric, e.g. digital signatures.