The key concern is that a sufficiently advanced quantum computer will be able to break various forms of cryptography used in Bitcoin (and many other cryptocurrencies), effectively making the ...
Any user of Bitcoin can elect to use a pay-to-Taproot (p2tr) address rather than the older public key hash or SegWit addresses. If a quantum computer can one day break these Schnorr signatures ...
In recent days there has been a mini media firestorm surrounding Google’s announcement about Willow, its new quantum computer, and a perceived threat to bitcoin. Most of the analysis reveals a ...