El Salvador has announced plans to split its vast bitcoin holdings into multiple wallets in order to protect against potential quantum attacks. The Central American country owns roughly half a billion ...

El Salvador, the country with one of the largest Bitcoin treasuries, made a surprising move on Aug. 30 when it transferred its BTC holdings to 14 new addresses. The Bitcoin Office of the country ...

Quantum computers located in a data center. Photo: Sven Hoppe/dpa (Photo by Sven Hoppe/picture alliance via Getty Images) To understand what quantum computers actually threaten, you first need to know ...

El Salvador’s Bitcoin Office announced changes Friday to how the country secures its reserve. Officials framed the move as “quantum risk mitigation” and “future-proofing.” Bitcoin OG Adam Back said ...

Quantum computing’s accelerating breakthroughs are forcing the crypto sector to confront a long-anticipated question. How long before quantum machines can break Bitcoin security? Blockchain analytics ...

I won’t pretend to deeply understand quantum physics, or quantum computing specifically, I don’t, but I grasp enough to know that the theory underlying it is sound. For certain classes of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Javier Bastardo is a Venezuelan covering Bitcoin news since 2017. On February 11 the most concrete action Bitcoin developers have ...

As quantum computing advances accelerate, Bitcoin faces a deeper challenge than cryptography: how a decentralized network governs irreversible change. Unsplash+ Earlier this month, StarkWare’s chief ...

Most quantum-vulnerable Bitcoin sits in wallets holding under 100 Bitcoin, with CoinShares claiming it could take a millennium to compromise each one. Digital asset manager CoinShares has brushed ...

Post-quantum Bitcoin wallets are already on sale, leaving investors to decide whether they’re buying insurance or paying up fear tax. Cryptocurrency wallet makers and security companies are pushing ...