Bitcoin & The "Threat" of Quantum Computing

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the field of Quantum Computing. It is a novel and incredibly complex topic that has turned into a hot button item. . If it lives up to it's potential Quantum Computing has the potential to be a truly paradigm shifting and industry disrupting [if not destroying] technology. More recently, Quantum Computing, specifically Quantum Computers, have been identified as the inevitable downfall of Bitcoin. The impossible to comprehend processing power, the sheer inexorable force they will bring to bear on the world will be a force unlike we have ever seen, one that no computer system can resist. Quantum Computers are the Boogie Man that every Bitcoin HODLer, Trader, Pundit, and Investor should stay up at night worrying about.