With quantum and much faster and more improved GPUs coming as technology advances, I have to hope the BTC devs will find a way to make wallets less prone to hacking and I doubt BTC will be left in the dust and have a sad ending with new technology taking the control over our wallets.
Worst part is, the oldest addresses are at risk. If one gets their hand on the earliest wallets, they could crash the markets and install fear in many of the new crypto enthusiasts.
But is the article even related to cracking
private keys or the wallet itself? Because from the quote below it sounds like they have been able to successfully exploit a ZIP file to get a BTC wallet, it doesn't look like they spent $100k, got a mining farm and cracked a wallet file:
We never know where the solutions to our problems are going to come from, like a random .zip file exploitation from two decades ago, but we can be sure that in the future it will be much easier to crack these keys.