The Impending Quantum Threat to Bitcoin In the world of cryptocurrencies, security is king. Bitcoin, powered by the revolutionary blockchain ...

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

Diffie-Hellman’s key-exchange method runs this kind of exponentiation protocol, with all the operations conducted in this way ...

However, it is not necessary to use fancy quantum cryptography technology such as entanglement to avoid the looming quantum ...

Bitcoin transactions could be resistant to quantum attacks without changing the network’s core rules, a new proposal contends ...

Quantum computing exists in a sort of superposition with regard to cryptography – it's both a pending threat and a technology of no immediate consequence for decryption. Now, two well-known ...

Google's quantum paper made headlines with that number. Here's what it means, what's actually at risk, and why 6.9 million bitcoin are more exposed than the rest.

Traditional encryption methods have long been vulnerable to quantum computers, but two new analyses suggest a capable enough machine may be built much sooner than previously thought ...

Google cut the qubits needed to break crypto encryption by 20x and withheld the circuits. Here's why that matters.

As the world races to build artificial superintelligence, one maverick bioengineer is testing how much unprogrammed intelligence may already be lurking in our simplest algorithms to determine whether ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...