Description

Christine D. Kim shares high-level updates on the upgrades planned for Bitcoin Core and Ethereum. She also dives into groundbreaking findings by the Google Quantum AI team on the feasibility of quantum attacks on public blockchains, and the responses by the Bitcoin and Ethereum developer communities. 

This episode was recorded on April 7, 2026.

Timestamps:

(0:52) Show announcements

(2:28) Bitcoin Core v31 updates

(6:58) Ethereum Glamsterdam developments

(11:29) Ethereum Hegota upgrade planning

(15:00) Google’s quantum crypto whitepaper

(26:37) Next week’s show

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