Researchers Suggest Quantum Computers Only a Decade From Cracking Bitcoin

Image credit: Yurchanka Siarhei / Shutterstock. Article by Tim Hakki. Decrypt – January 26, 2022.

Neven’s Law, not Moore’s, gives quantum computers about 10 more years before they could ever crack the leading crypto.

A Quantum Computing graduate student has calculated how large a quantum computer would need to be in order to crack Bitcoin’s secure cryptographic algorithm. Mark Webber and his colleagues from the Ion Quantum Technology Group at the University of Sussex concluded that quantum computers need to be a […]

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