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Quantum Computing Group Launches 1 BTC Challenge to Break Bitcoin Encryption
Project Eleven, a quantum computing research organization, has announced the Q-Day Prize—a global challenge offering 1 Bitcoin (BTC) to the first team that successfully breaks an elliptic curve cryptographic (ECC) key using Shor’s algorithm on a quantum computer.
The initiative aims to highlight the potential threat that quantum computing poses to Bitcoin’s current security framework. Over 10 million Bitcoin addresses could be at risk if ECC encryption is compromised. Proposed mitigation strategies, including the Quantum-Resistant Address Migration Protocol and Coarse-Grained Boson Sampling, would require a hard fork of the Bitcoin network.
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Project Eleven, a quantum computing research organization, has announced the Q-Day Prize—a global challenge offering 1 Bitcoin (BTC) to the first team that successfully breaks an elliptic curve cryptographic (ECC) key using Shor’s algorithm on a quantum computer.
The initiative aims to highlight the potential threat that quantum computing poses to Bitcoin’s current security framework. Over 10 million Bitcoin addresses could be at risk if ECC encryption is compromised. Proposed mitigation strategies, including the Quantum-Resistant Address Migration Protocol and Coarse-Grained Boson Sampling, would require a hard fork of the Bitcoin network.
#Bitcoin
#QuantumComputing
#CryptographicKey
#BTC
#CryptoNews
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