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 ...

A Bitcoin Improvement Proposal aims to phase out vulnerable legacy signatures and introduce quantum-resistant alternatives to protect Bitcoin from emerging quantum computing risks.

Crypto experts say quantum computing could break Bitcoin’s encryption system. The network applies cryptographic security measures such as the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) to ...

Bitcoin developers propose freezing $590 billion in legacy wallets to defend against future quantum computing attacks.

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

Satoshi Nakamoto is richer than Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Dell founder Michael Dell—and Bitcoin critic Warren ...

If quantum computing ever reaches a stage where it can crack SHA-256, it could theoretically reverse-engineer a Bitcoin address into its corresponding public key.

Ian King believes recent comments about quantum computing from Nvidia's CEO should be a wake-up call for anyone who has a ...

Committing to quantum resistance: a slow defence for bitcoin against a fast quantum computing attack. Royal Society open science, 5(6):180410, 2018. Retrieved from https://royalsocietypublishing ...

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, ...

Bitcoin's future lies in its evolution, ... "If [the Secure Hashing Algorithm 256, which works as a unique digital fingerprint, or quantum computing] was breakable, ...