Musk Backs Physics Claim Quantum Computers Can't Break Bitcoin

Elon Musk backed Oxford physicist Tim Palmer’s fringe theory that quantum computers may stall at 200 to 400 qubits, but he did not mention Bitcoin or private keys. According to BeInCrypto, crypto traders and investor Fred Krueger later used Musk’s reply to argue BTC is already quantum-safe, while Palmer’s paper in PNAS says nature contains no smooth continuum and quantum machines may never pass 1,000 qubits. Cracking Bitcoin’s signatures is still estimated to require 835 logical qubits.