Google slashes quantum cracking estimates by 20X creating $600 billion countdown for Bitcoin and Ethereum
A brand new paper from Google Quantum AI has sharply decreased the estimated {hardware} required to crack elliptic-curve cryptography used by Bitcoin and a lot of Ethereum, shifting a long-running safety debate nearer to market phrases. At present market costs, the quantum computing dangers may have an effect on greater than $600 billion in Bitcoin,…
