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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Google's latest research shows quantum computers could break Bitcoin encryption in minutes. Analysts say developers have 3-5 ...

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 ...

Milestone on the path to the quantum computer: Scientists of the University of Konstanz, Princeton University, and the University of Maryland have developed a stable quantum gate for two-quantum bit ...