# Google's Quantum Warning Overblown?, OpenAI Acquires TBPN, Jack Dorsey Makes Block Mini-AGI

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Podcast: [PBJ](https://stenobird.com/podcast/presidio-bitcoin-jam-7268126)
Published: 2026-04-03T22:08:28+00:00
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## Resource

0:00 Opening banter and agenda setting 2:00 Google and Oratomic quantum papers & the “n minus one” framing 6:44 Quantum uncertainty: AI acceleration & s-curves 10:06 Preparedness planning and scenario-based bitcoin responses 11:52 Why government and corporate quantum timelines are misleading 15:12 Post-quantum signature tradeoffs: SHRINCS, SHRIMPS, and state 23:35 Why quantum is a harder problem for bitcoin than other technologies and orgs 30:57 Competing quantum narratives, incentives, and media hype 34:24 The new bitcoin faucet & Block’s teaser campaign 36:30 Square’s default bitcoin payments rollout and adoption friction 43:00 Tipping, UX constraints, and Lightning’s retail payment challenge 52:31 OpenAI’s TBPN acquisition and the strategic value of media distribution 59:50 Open-source AI & Google's Gemma 4 release 1:03:14 Block’s new mesh-llm and peer-to-peer compute 1:07:21 Open agent marketplaces, business models, and demand formation 1:22:40 Block’s corporate structure shift from "hierarchy to intelligence" and the “mini-agi” vision 1:32:55 Scheduling notes - no pod next Friday! Next pod Tuesday, April 14 - SHOW NOTES: Block's bitcoin faucet: https://btc.day/ Google's quantum paper: https://research.google/blog/safeguarding-cryptocurrency-by-disclosing-quantum-vulnerabilities-responsibly/ Oratomic quantum paper: https://arxiv.org/html/2603.28627v1 SHRIMPS: https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/shrimps-2-5-kb-post-quantum-signatures-across-multiple-stateful-devices/2355 Mesh-llm: https://www.anarchai.org/ Block's corporate structure shift: https://block.xyz/inside/from-hierarchy-to-intelligence - SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/@PresidioBitcoin

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