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Aug 12, 2026 at 7:47 PM UTC ยท Updated 2 ไธชๆœˆๅ‰ ยท 4 ๅˆ†้’Ÿ้˜…่ฏป

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JIM CRAMER IS SELLING HIS BITCOIN OVER QUANTUM COMPUTERS ๐Ÿ”

On August 3, Jim Cramer told CNBC viewers he's selling every last one of his Bitcoin.

His reasoning: quantum computers will crack it within about three years.

He'd interviewed IBM CEO Arvind Krishna a few days before that, who said investors should be "paranoid" about quantum computers breaking modern cryptography in 3-4 years.

Obviously, Jim Cramerโ€™s track record tells us heโ€™s not someone we should be taking all that seriously (Inverse Cramer exists for a reason)โ€ฆ

That said, enough PRO members asked about the story that John Gillen (our crypto analyst) decided to write a tidy little breakdown on โ€˜the quantum threat.โ€™

His advice, in short: pay attention to it, but don't freak out about it.

The actual threat looks like thisโ€ฆ

Your wallet has a private key (your secret password), and that key generates your public key (the identifier everyone else can see).

On a normal computer, following the breadcrumbs to reverse engineer a userโ€™s private key from their public key would take billions of years.

But a big enough quantum computer running something called Shor's algorithm could do that reversal in minutes.

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