Giancarlo Lelli wins one Bitcoin for record quantum security attack.

BitGo CEO Mike Belshe rejected claims quantum computing could threaten Bitcoin by 2030, questioning Project Eleven’s motives.

Google's new whitepaper says it could take only minutes for a quantum system to crack Bitcoin.

Project Eleven, a quantum security research company, awarded a prize to researcher Giancarlo Lelli for using a quantum computer to break a 15-bit elliptic-curve key — a small-scale version of the same ...

With growing focus on the existential threat quantum computing poses to some of the most crucial and widely used forms of encryption, cryptography engineer Filippo Valsorda wants to make one thing ...

Independent researcher Giancarlo Lelli broke a 15-bit elliptic curve key on publicly accessible quantum hardware, 512 times ...

PsiQuantum co-founder Terry Rudolph said in July it has no plans to attack Bitcoin, even if its upcoming facility becomes powerful enough to break the blockchain’s cryptography. The quantum computing ...

The crypto industry's reaction was that a quantum computing threat was still distant when Google unveiled its Willow quantum chip in December 2024. Bitcoin uses SHA-256 for mining and ECDSA for ...

Google’s quantum research is accelerating fears that Bitcoin’s cryptography may face a real timeline, forcing the network to race toward quantum-resistant upgrades. A new research paper from Google ...

A team of Google researchers just set a new date for post-quantum cryptography migration: 2029. Among other things, this means that Bitcoin, as well as many other cryptocurrencies, needs to adopt new ...