Today, Google's Quantum AI team published a whitepaper showing that future quantum computers could break the 256-bit elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) protecting Bitcoin with fewer qubits than previously estimated. Google has set an internal 2029 deadline to migrate its own systems to post-quantum cryptography. A EUROCRYPT 2026 paper narrows the estimate to just 1,098 logical qubits - down from 2,124.