Someone just burned $8 million of bitcoin
More than 107 BTC are now provably burned from the supply until someone invents a cryptographically relevant quantum computer.
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Project Eleven paid a quantum prize for a random number generator
Bitcoin security researchers have fact-checked Project Eleven’s quantum computing breakthrough and 1 BTC prize.
Cloudflare’s 2029 quantum sprint raises Bitcoin alarm bells
Cloudflare is joining Google in a 2029 post-quantum deadline that's lighting a fire under Bitcoin’s historically slow upgrade cadence.
Bitcoin’s quantum deadline just moved up
Requirements for a quantum bitcoin attack dropped from millions to sub-10,000 qubits, cutting estimates by two orders of magnitude.
Explaining Nic Carter’s quantum complaint about Bitcoin
Nic Carter is forcing the Bitcoin community to reckon with the threat of quantum computing as a potentially near-term catastrophe.
Michael Saylor thinks quantum could reduce bitcoin’s supply by 23%
Michael Saylor thinks that an upcoming quantum hard fork could reduce the supply of BTC from 21M to as low as 16M.
Michael Saylor: We can solve quantum by freezing Satoshi’s BTC
Michael Saylor’s latest tweet about hard forking BTC for quantum security has his followers hoping it’s AI slop.
No, a quantum computer didn’t break SHA-256 or Bitcoin
Yet again, Bitcoin was the target of fake news about a non-existent quantum computer cracking SHA-256 cryptography.
The internet is laughing at El Salvador’s ‘quantum-safe’ bitcoin
El Salvador’s Bitcoin Office earned skepticism and laughter with bitcoin (BTC) wallet movements to protect against quantum computing.
Microsoft’s new state of matter is a quantum threat to bitcoin
Microsoft’s quantum chip engineers just discovered a brand new state of matter, and Bitcoin’s security could get lost in the flux.