The Quantum Threat to Bitcoin: How a Powerful Computer Can Steal Your Cryptocurrency in Under 10 Minutes
To understand how a quantum computer can be used to steal bitcoin, it's essential to know how bitcoin's security is built and where the weakness lies. Bitcoin uses elliptic curve cryptography, which involves a one-way map that makes it easy to go forward but virtually impossible for classical computers to reverse. However, Shor's algorithm, a quantum algorithm discovered in 1994, can break this o…
April 18, 2026, 3:51 a.m.