Around 6.8 million BTC have public keys visible onchain. Those are the wallets a quantum computer targets first. Drake puts Q ...

Blockstream CEO Adam Back called five transactions burning 107 BTC to Bitcoin's burn address an accidental quantum bounty.

The Echo Protocol hack revealed DeFi’s growing operational security crisis after attackers minted $76.7M fake eBTC using a stolen admin key.

Private key compromises led crypto hack losses over the past decade as recent DeFi exploits show attackers moving beyond smart contract bugs. Private key compromises are emerging as one of crypto’s ...

Google's Quantum AI team said earlier this week that a future quantum computer could derive a bitcoin private key from a public key in roughly nine minutes. The number ricocheted across social media ...

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A pseudonymous claimant, “Noah Doe,” alongside two Wyoming LLCs, has filed a lawsuit in New York Supreme Court seeking recognition as the rightful owner of 39,069 dormant Bitcoin addresses containing ...

The quantum attack Bitcoin has spent years treating as tomorrow's problem just got a little less theoretical. Quantum security startup Project Eleven said it awarded its 1 bitcoin BTC $60,606.94 Q-Day ...