The Quantum Threat to Bitcoin: How a Powerful Computer Can Steal Your Cryptocurrency in Under 10 Minutes
To understand how a quantum computer can steal bitcoin, it's essential to know how bitcoin's security works. Bitcoin uses a system called elliptic curve cryptography, which relies on a one-way mathematical function to prove ownership of coins. This function, known as the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem, is virtually impossible for classical computers to solve, but a quantum algorithm ca…
April 18, 2026, 3:51 a.m.