Security researchers stress that executing a quantum attack on Bitcoin would require millions of stable qubits, far beyond ...

Bitcoin’s quantum reckoning may still be years away, but the fear has already arrived. Breakthroughs from Google, Caltech, and IBM have reignited debate over a looming “Q-Day”—the moment when a ...

Jefferies has just delivered one of the starkest institutional warnings yet that quantum computing is no longer a distant ...

Advances in quantum computing could eventually weaken elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), the public-key standard used by ...

Marco Tomamichel consults for the cryptocurrency HCash and works with the blockchain startup QubitProtocol. Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin have recently captured the public’s imagination because they ...

Long-term threats to Bitcoin’s security are creeping up faster than markets expect, analyst warns. About one-third of all Bitcoin “appears vulnerable to long-range quantum attacks.” BlackRock also ...

One of the key reasons why computers were created in the first place was to help create and crack cryptography, according to Konstantinos Karagiannis, Chief Technology Officer for Security Consulting ...

As far as open-source protocols go, one area in which Bitcoin is unique is the sheer difficulty of making any changes to the protocol. Unlike most other protocols, where features can be added, ...

A private key, also known as a secret key, is a cryptographic key that is used to decrypt or digitally sign data. It is a crucial component in asymmetric encryption algorithms like RSA and ECC ...