AI Just Cut the Cost of Cracking Bitcoin's Encryption in Half. Is Q-Day Getting Closer?

AI Just Cut the Cost of Cracking Bitcoin's Encryption in Half. Is Q-Day Getting Closer?

A new cryptography paper just slashed the estimated cost of one critical step in a quantum attack on Bitcoin, and it happened in roughly two months. The researchers behind it are now asking whether the industry's Q-Day timelines need to be rewritten.

AI Just Cut the Cost of Cracking Bitcoin’s Encryption in Half. Is Q-Day Getting Closer?

The post AI Just Cut the Cost of Cracking Bitcoin’s Encryption in Half. Is Q-Day Getting Closer? appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.. Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) is trading around $79,000, but the more important number for Bitcoin’s long-term future may have nothing to do with its price. A new cryptography…

AI Reduces Quantum Bitcoin Attack Costs by 86% in Two Months

A quantum computer capable of cracking Bitcoin’s cryptography has long been treated as a distant, almost theoretical problem. But new research suggests the math behind that threat is shrinking faster than anyone expected, and artificial intelligence is the reason why. Over just two months, a group...

Quantum Bitcoin Risk Changes as AI Agents Advance

TLDR AI agents helped researchers reduce a key quantum attack resource score by 86.1%. The research optimized only a secp256k1 point-addition process, not a full Bitcoin private-key attack. IonQ estimates a complete attack would require about 1,457 logical qubits and 39 million Toffoli gates. Glassnode estimates 6.04 million BTC, or 30.2% of supply, has public-key [...]