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

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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.

First report: Researchers Cut the Estimated Quantum Cost of a Key Step in Attacking Bitcoin and Ethereum by More Than Half — unchainedcrypto.com, 3d