Quantum Fear Is Capping Bitcoin's Price: Sentiment, Not Science

Thursday morning, Bitcoin kept oscillating around $80k. Price would dip, then climb back, then dip again — a back-and-forth tug of war, with volume no higher than the day before. The tape was unusually quiet, carrying something of the dullness of a late bear market. For some, this is garbage time; for others, it is a window to prepare. According to Cointelegraph, Muneeb Ali, the founder of Stacks, recently said on the Chain Reaction podcast that quantum fear has effectively put a ceiling on Bitcoin’s growth [1]. His argument: because quantum computing remains without a definitive answer, risk-averse institutions keep pushing their large purchases further and further back — all the way until developers produce a credible post-quantum roadmap. He delivered the line without heat, almost as if describing something already in motion. ...

October 29, 2026 · 5 min · Nick Yam