Quantum Challenge Offers a Single Bitcoin to Crack the Protocol’s Defense Mechanism


$ 103,686.5
€ 89,850.0
¥ 38,800.0
£ 76,474.7
BTC
-4.36 %
$ 2,486.96
€ 2,157.21
¥ 930.47
£ 1,836.93
ETH
-9.84 %
$ 302.83
€ 262.34
¥ 113.45
£ 223.32
XMR
-7.85 %
$ 82.08
€ 71.16
¥ 30.75
£ 60.58
LTC
-10.02 %

Luring quantum tinkerers, Project Eleven is dangling a one‑bitcoin bounty to whoever first demonstrates Bitcoin’s cryptographic Achilles’ heel using a quantum computer. Will a Single Bitcoin Tempt Hackers to Break Bitcoin’s Armor? Branded the “Q‑Day Prize,” the challenge asks entrants worldwide to crack a toy version of Bitcoin’s elliptic curve cryptography with Shor’s algorithm running […]

Author: