Satoshi Nakamoto, the unknown creator of Bitcoin, programmed it with strong cryptography to prevent it against the risks of hacking — an attribute that is celebrated by the crypto industry globally. The co-founder of Solana, however, has warned that the developments in quantum computing will one day be able to crack the BTC security codes — making it susceptible to cyber threats.
Anatoly Yakovenko, who co-founded Solana Labs in 2018, spoke about the risks of quantum computing on BTC during the recently held All-In Summit 2025 in Los Angeles, California.
“I feel like 50/50 within five years there is a quantum breakthrough. We should migrate Bitcoin to a quantum resistance signature scheme. I would try to encourage folks to speed things up,” Yakovenko noted.
Quantum computing uses advance mechanics like superposition and entanglement to process vast amounts of data and simultaneously solve problems that are intractable for classical computers.
Yakovenko believes, that the advancements in quantum computing by 2030 would be able to crack BTC’s cryptographic security provisions, exposing the asset to cyber risks.
His suggestion of deploying a quantum resistance signature scheme to the Bitcoin network would mean adding layers of cryptographic algorithms to create digital signatures which would keep the network safeguarded against malicious attacks from traditional computers, as well as more advanced ones.
The Solana co-founder believes that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will play a crucial role in advancing the quantum computing technology in the next five years.
Having expressed his concerns around Bitcoin’s future, Yakovenko did mention that the network’s “proof-of-work is a brilliant it’s masterpiece yeah it’s a masterpiece in terms of like elegance and simplicity and it’s very robust to I think all sorts of attacks. Now, that doesn’t mean that, you know, you can’t have an attack that could cause, you know, roll back that’s unexpected, but I think it’s extremely hard to pull off.”
Bitcoin, that is presently trading at $114,388, was first mentioned in a whitepaper in 2008. At launch, the asset was valued at basically nothing. It hit the $1.00 mark between February and April 2011.
As per Statista, Bitcoin’s blockchain database has been clocking an exponential growth by nearly one gigabyte every few days. It maintains a list of all Bitcoin transactions and records since its initial release in January 2009. As of August 2025, the size of the Bitcoin blockchain reached close to 664.32 gigabytes.
He also mentioned that Bitcoin’s design is the “coolest” piece of software written in the last 20 years.