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<strong>“Cryptography</strong> is the field concerned with linguistic and mathematical techniques for securing information, particularly in communications” and the security characteristic of Distributed Ledger Technology. <strong>Quantum computers</strong> have long been dubbed as the Achilles’ heel of Bitcoin and the whole <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/cryptocurrency" target="_blank">cryptocurrency</a> industry. Due to their overwhelming advantage in computing speed, quantum computers could theoretically be used to disrupt the activity not only of a decentralized system or a <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/blockchain" target="_blank">blockchain</a> but of any software using any kind of encryption.