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El Salvador secures its reserves by splitting holdings into multiple wallets, mitigating Bitcoin quantum security risks from future threats.

In cybersecurity, few threats are as paradoxical and pressing as the ones posed by quantum computing. Quantum computers ...

Blockchain security relies heavily on cryptographic primitives like public-key encryption, digital signatures, and hash functions. In current systems, techniques such as RSA and elliptic curve ...

Scientists have recently unveiled a groundbreaking quantum bit, or qubit, design that promises to revolutionize quantum ...

In 1994, MIT professor of applied mathematics Peter Shor developed a groundbreaking quantum computing algorithm capable of factoring numbers (that is, finding the prime numbers for any integer N ...

El Salvador plans to move its Bitcoin from a single wallet into 14 fresh wallets to enhance the security of its reserves.

In 1994, Bell Labs mathematician Peter Shor ignited a storm of interest in quantum computing when he developed an algorithm that could theoretically factor large prime numbers.

Shor’s discovery electrified the small community of physicists who studied quantum information — the kind of information that quantum computers would process.

Though researchers are still many years away from creating a quantum computer capable of running the Shor algorithm, progress has been made.