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Comment by Devilboy

Bitcoin addresses are hashes, not the public keys themselves. Thus they are safe against a quantum factoring algorithm. If you spend money from a bitcoin address though, the public key does get written to the block chain but to combat this you merely have to send your change to a new address and you'll be safe again.
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