Wouldn't the smartest thing to do right now is selling crypto, buying stock indices, gold at worse and real estate at best? At least you have your physical land deed with that.
You believe they really have hundreds of usable (error-corrected) qubits, or will have in few years? IMO there is no reason to think such stuff exists, even if it were state secret there would be leaks. Because the research effort is massive.
If AI can achieve huge advancements like that in few years, then it can also disrupt everything else. Including any investment strategy you can come up with, no matter how smart.
Bitcoin finally falling, because normies realized quantum technologies will crack it. Nice. It's only downhill from here. But gold and real estate in geopolitically safe areas.
Popularity covers the demand side. For the supply, it's perfectly scarce.
In a world of fiat currencies effortlessly printed out of thin air, a liquid, divisible digital asset with perfect scarcity is going to be quite popular.