Bitcoin’s cryptography has never faced an existential threat and still doesn’t, except preemptive ones that can possibly ...

Quantum computing is considered an "existential threat" to cryptographic systems. A new proposal seeks to phase out ...

The Quantum Bitcoin Summit brought together experts in both quantum computing and Bitcoin, this is a summary of the event.

Jameson Lopp proposed a change to Bitcoin’s software featuring incentives that could address quantum computers’ catastrophic ...

Adversaries may already be harvesting encrypted blockchain data, betting on quantum decryption capabilities to come.

What is quantum technology? Quantum technology can process an enormous amount of data and solve complex problems in seconds rather than decades. Remarkably, quantum technology first appeared in the ...

LocalBitcoins, a leading peer to peer (P2P) Bitcoin exchange, notes that with the advent of quantum computing, there have been concerns that this new technology could be a threat to existing ...

Most experts peg the quantum threat to Bitcoin as at least a decade away, likely into the 2030s or beyond, given the engineering challenges of building fault-tolerant systems.

One of my favorite descriptions of Bitcoin comes from that great oracle of this space, Andreas Antonopoulos. ... Tackling the Quantum Threat to Bitcoin June 03, 2022 — 11:57 am EDT.

In light of that, I also spoke to several cryptographers at Crypto 2017 to get a sense of the threat quantum computing posed to Bitcoin's digital signatures. Nobody seemed too concerned.

Bitcoin's quantum computing threat. To be clear, quantum computing is not going to break the cryptographic protection around people's wallets today. However, in 1994, ...