A July 15 report by global consulting firm Capgemini warns that public-key cryptographic systems, including RSA and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), may be rendered obsolete by quantum machines in ...

Malikie Innovations, a firm that acquired tens of thousands of patents from BlackBerry in 2023, has sued major Bitcoin mining firms Marathon Digital and Core Scientific for using the Elliptic Curve ...

Quantum computing is on the horizon, promising to solve complex problems beyond the capabilities of classical computers. But for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, which rely on today’s cryptographic ...

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Quantum researchers are offering 1 Bitcoin to whoever cracks the biggest “toy version” of a Bitcoin key using Shor's algorithm on a quantum computer. Quantum computing research firm Project Eleven has ...

Update (June 4, 2025, 6:45 am UTC): This article has been updated to add commentary by crypto lawyer Michael Bacina. Malikie Innovations, a firm that acquired tens of thousands of patents from ...