Bitcoin ‘Q-Day’ Draws Nearer as Quantum Researcher Breaks Simplified Key

In brief

• Project Eleven awarded 1 Bitcoin to researcher Giancarlo Lelli for cracking a 15-bit elliptic curve key using public quantum hardware.
• The demonstration is the largest public quantum attack on elliptic curve cryptography to date, though far from Bitcoin’s 256-bit keys.
• Project Eleven…