Crypto investors are accustomed to volatility risk. You have to be when prices of coins regularly swing by 10% or more in mere days. Unfortunately, volatility is just one of several potential pitfalls ...

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are now embedded in the global financial system. Countries are creating strategic reserves, and institutional investors, from hedge funds to pension schemes, are ...

Quantum computing is not currently an existential threat to Bitcoin, but as capital becomes more institutional and long-term, ...

Quantum computing threat to Bitcoin remains distant, experts say, though long-term cryptographic risks persist.

Quantum computing’s accelerating breakthroughs are forcing the crypto sector to confront a long-anticipated question. How long before quantum machines can break Bitcoin security? Blockchain analytics ...

Quantum computing, the prospect of advanced computations beyond the binary limitations of ones or zeros, may be the harbinger of advancements to come. But cryptocurrency adherents are starting to ...

In December 2024, Google’s Willow chip became the first quantum processor to demonstrate “below threshold” error correction.

A new research paper by Google Quantum AI researcher Craig Gidney shows that breaking widely used RSA encryption may require 20 times fewer quantum resources than previously believed. The finding did ...

Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya has warned that Google revealed breaking common encryption might be closer than we thought. “If this is even remotely true, combined with everything else ...

Project Eleven, a quantum computing research and advocacy firm, has launched the Q-Day Prize, a global competition offering 1 bitcoin BTC $88,622.82 to the first team able to break an elliptic curve ...