Quantum Could Crack Your Bank, Stocks, and Nuclear Systems Too – So Why Is Bitcoin More Exposed?

The post Quantum Could Crack Your Bank, Stocks, and Nuclear Systems Too – So Why Is Bitcoin More Exposed? appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News Google’s March 30 whitepaper rattled the crypto market but reframed a question the industry has been asking wrong for years. The research from Google’s Quantum AI team found that cracking Bitcoin’s elliptic curve cryptography could require fewer than 500,000 physical qubits – a 20-fold reduction from previous estimates. A sufficiently powerful quantum computer could derive …