U.S. Funds $300 Million Quantum Hardware Drive as Bitcoin and Ethereum Edge Toward Quantum Deadline
The cryptocurrency world is watching a new kind of race—a race against the clock of quantum computing. Bitcoin and Ethereum, the two largest digital assets by market capitalization, rely on cryptographic algorithms that are currently considered secure against classical computers. However, the emergence of large‑scale, fault‑tolerant quantum machines could, in theory, break the elliptic‑curve sign…
Sept. 9, 2026, 3:30 p.m.