Last month, the U.S. Commerce Department signed letters of intent to award just over $2 billion to nine quantum computing firms, including $1B for IBM and $375M for GlobalFoundries. The author argues this accelerates the race toward a cryptographically relevant quantum computer, while post-quantum defenses for Bitcoin and other systems remain slowed by coordination and adoption barriers. NIST timelines cited in the piece deprecate RSA-2048 and ECDSA at 112-bit security in 2030 and disallow them in 2035, raising pressure for industry-wide migration planning.