48 Hours to Oblivion
The Day Bitcoin Faced the Quantum Reckoning
Prologue
Friday, September 2, 2033 — 4:00 PM UTC
Bitcoin Price: $1,973,842
The breach didn’t begin with an explosion.
It began with a whisper on the blockchain.
At 4:03 PM, a wallet containing 50 BTC mined in February 2009 suddenly moved.
It had never moved before.
It wasn’t supposed to.
Ten minutes later, another legacy wallet drained. Then a third.
By 4:30, Jameson Lopp—now Professor of Cryptography at Harvard—posted one word on X:
“Confirmed.”
The network shuddered. Something ancient had been touched.
And the world’s reserve asset was under attack.
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