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The Pomp Podcast · October 2026
Pompliano is responding to a prominent investor's claim that quantum computing will send Bitcoin to zero. He calls the threat real but beatable, arguing that the side with the money usually keeps up, even as AI gives attackers more to work with.
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…interview they did on their podcast this week, which came out today, I'm just telling you, you can't leave and then listen to Chamoth and believe what every smart person is involved in right now and know that we still have seven years to prepare for this. So I find the statement as completely just
…can get these things. And they're like super intense. They're, you know, tens and tens of slides long that basically break down an entire problem and explain it. So I talk about stuff all the time that I'm not, quote unquote, a credentialed expert in. Right. That part doesn't bother me. Actually, like maybe there's unique thoughts, et cetera. The part that I think that he maybe is missing on is there's always a cat and mouse game between the good guys and the bad guys when it comes to technology. And what you find is usually the good guys have more money than the bad guys, but the bad guys have more time to think about using the technology. And so in a world of abundance, there's a little bit of a weird thing. Where now the bad guys have access to lots of intelligence, lots of time, the speeding up of time that you've talked about, right? And so cybersecurity becomes this huge issue. You mentioned some of the things that we saw there, but I still think that the quote-unquote good guys with the money end up being able to resist all…
Yeah, I think now we saw a small indication of it on, I guess it was Wednesday.
Okay.
The only update of really the week. Well, no, in the stock market, it was up Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday was down big on Thursday. But on Wednesday, which was following the SpaceX news, you had a very large jump the second that people thought, okay, this must be over. We finally got the confirmation…