BlackRock’s Tony Kim highlights rise of QPUs, explaining how quantum computing could complement CPUs and GPUs while unlocking breakthroughs across science, tech, and investing

BlackRock flagged quantum risk directly in IBIT's 2025 S-1 amendment, and now Kim's bullish on QPUs two days after BIP-361 was proposed to freeze the ~6.5M BTC (32.7% of supply) sitting in exposed P2PK and reused-address UTXOs. Nic Carter's read is correct: whoever holds the biggest bag when Q-day forces a hard fork writes the migration rules, and IBIT's position gives BlackRock governance leverage Core devs don't have. Ethereum's account abstraction path to post-quantum signatures is trivial by comparison, but no one's pricing that premium in yet.

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