Giancarlo Lelli wins one Bitcoin for record quantum security attack.

Project Eleven, a quantum security research company, awarded a prize to researcher Giancarlo Lelli for using a quantum computer to break a 15-bit elliptic-curve key — a small-scale version of the same ...

The Impending Quantum Threat to Bitcoin In the world of cryptocurrencies, security is king. Bitcoin, powered by the revolutionary blockchain ...

Quantum computer breaks Bitcoin-style encryption for the first time. Learn what this breakthrough means for BTC security and ...

Giancarlo Lelli performed the largest known quantum attack on Bitcoin’s encryption model. His feat is a 512-fold jump from ...

A quantum computer broke a 15-bit key in a Bitcoin test, raising security concerns. Crypto hack over $100M by December 31 at ...

A lot has been made about a post-quantum computer future in which traditional encryption methods have suddenly been rendered ...

Part one explained the physics of quantum computing. This piece explains the target — how bitcoin's encryption works, why a ...

Quantum computers should be powerful enough to crack Bitcoin’s security features—by instantly solving the mining mechanism or guessing wallet passwords by brute force—a few years after 2030, according ...

Google LLC today published a paper that indicates a quantum computer with 500,000 qubits could be used to steal cryptocurrency. The cybersecurity risks posed by quantum computers were already ...