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Attacking bitcoin mining with a quantum computer would require the energy of a star, academics say

Quantum computing headlines increasingly suggest bitcoin is on the verge of collapse, with claims that future machines could crack its cryptography in minutes or...

Grayscale Highlights XRP’s Push To Counter Quantum Risk

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Developers working on the XRP Ledger added a new type of digital...

Bitcoin’s quantum risks are a governance, not engineering, problem

Digital asset manager Grayscale backed accelerated efforts to make public blockchains quantum-resistant in a new research note arguing the technical solutions already exist but...

Nobel-winning physicist warns bitcoin could be early target of quantum computing

A Nobel Prize–winning physicist who helped build Google’s quantum computers warned that Bitcoin BTC$68,399.76 may be among the earliest real-world targets of the technology.In...

Grayscale Says Bitcoin’s Quantum Problem is Mostly a Social One

The challenge to solving the quantum threat to Bitcoin could be more social than technical, according to Grayscale’s head of research, especially if the...

Circle’s Arc Network Reveals Quantum Resistance Plans as Bitcoin, Ethereum Face Threat

In brief Arc Network will launch its mainnet with built-in post-quantum signature support. The phased roadmap targets full quantum resistance across wallets, validators, and infrastructure. Experts predict...

Circle future-proofs Arc blockchain against quantum threats

Move over, legacy crypto. Circle’s Layer-1 blockchain Arc, built for stablecoin finance and institutional use, will debut with quantum-resistant features designed to survive a...

Why the mind-bending physics of quantum computing is terrifying for bitcoin and crypto

This week, Google published a paper describing how a quantum computer could theoretically derive a bitcoin private key in 9 minutes, with ramifications that...

What Is Q-Day? The Quantum Threat to Bitcoin Explained

In brief Today’s quantum computers are far too small and unstable to threaten real-world cryptography. Early Bitcoin wallets with exposed public keys are most at risk...

What does ‘cracking’ bitcoin in 9 minutes by quantum computers actually mean

Google's Quantum AI team said earlier this week that a future quantum computer could derive a bitcoin private key from a public key in...

How Real Is The Quantum Threat?

A new panel has officially been announced to take place at Bitcoin 2026 titled “How Real Is The Quantum Threat?” The conversation...

Startup lets researchers test blockchain tasks on a quantum computer for the first time

Most of the crypto industry spent this week processing Google's paper on how quantum computers could break blockchain encryption. One startup is asking a...