World’s first quantum blueprint could crack Bitcoin’s 256-bit security in 26 days
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IonQ published a detailed blueprint showing a quantum computer could break Bitcoin's 256-bit encryption in about 26 days using roughly 19,400 physical qubits. No attack is possible today, but this gives researchers a concrete engineering target for when quantum threats to cryptocurrency could become real.
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