Quantum computers located in a data center. Photo: Sven Hoppe/dpa (Photo by Sven Hoppe/picture alliance via Getty Images) To understand what quantum computers actually threaten, you first need to know ...

A UC San Diego-led team forged RSA signatures without extracting its key. But Bitcoin and Ethereum sign with a different ...

Quantum computers could eventually crack Bitcoin, but Bitcoin can counter that threat.

The bitcoin industry and researchers are stepping up work to prepare for a potential future security threat from quantum computers, even though so-called Q-Day remains hypothetical. Efforts are moving ...

Bitcoin’s quantum threat may be less about cryptography than coordination. Here’s how a post-quantum migration could test the network’s social layer.

Quantum-safe blockchain design requires more than replacing ECDSA. This article examines the protocol layers that still matter after post-quantum migration.

American investor and former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli told host Isabel Foxen Duke that if quantum computing ever scales, Shor’s algorithm—not artificial intelligence (AI)—poses the most ...

Project 11 is looking to gauge the urgency of the quantum security risk to Bitcoin. Millions of addresses could be at risk if quantum computers are eventually able to break Bitcoin’s cryptography.

StarkWare mined the first quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction on mainnet without a network upgrade, using hash-based cryptography within existing ...

IonQ CEO Niccolo de Masi says Q-Day arrives in 2028, threatening Bitcoin's secp256k1 encryption. Here's what the timeline means for crypto ...

Naoris has launched a $120,000 bounty incentivising researchers to break key cryptographic algorithms underpinning Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana. Naoris, a cybersecurity firm focused on safeguarding ...