POPA ReconQuantum Could Break Bitcoin by 2032 - Odds Now at 50%
Quantum Could Break Bitcoin by 2032 - Odds Now at 50% On March 31, Google's Quantum AI team published a 10x improvement to Shor's algorithm, demonstrated on secp256k1, the elliptic curve behind Bitcoin and Ethereum signatures. After talks with the US government, Google hid the key optimizations behind a ZK proof - academic censorship via zero-knowledge, a historic first. It backfired: two months later, a French expert rediscovered the trick, and the public "Shor-at-home" challenge at ecdsa.fail has already improved Google's circuit by 8.4%. Stealth startup Oratomic claims just 10K physical q…
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