Justin Drake, a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, has advised those in the crypto space to start thinking of quietly relocating their funds into new wallets, because the signature scheme that ...

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 ...

On Oct. 7, Ethereum researcher Justin Drake urged the blockchain industry to prepare for what he described as “bunker mode,” including a controlled migration of digital assets into fresh addresses ...

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 ...

Bitcoin (BTC-1.77%) became the world's largest cryptocurrency because its supply was capped, its mining rewards were halved every four years, and it established a first-mover advantage among retail ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...