Google Quantum Paper Speeds Up Timeline for Threat to Crypto to 3 Years

Google Quantum Paper Speeds Up Timeline for Threat to Crypto to 3 Years

Google’s Quantum AI team published a landmark whitepaper Tuesday that sharply compresses the estimated timeline for a quantum computer to break the cryptographic foundations of Bitcoin and Ethereum, triggering an industry-wide debate about how much runway remains before a potentially existential threat becomes actionable. The core finding: the number of physical qubits needed to crack the 256-bit elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem — the m…

Is Quantum a Threat to Crypto? Here's How Fast Quantum Computers Could Crack Bitcoin

Can quantum computers break Bitcoin before your transaction even confirms? A few years ago, that sounded like far-off sci-fi. In March 2026, it started sounding a lot more real. A new Google Quantum AI paper says the hardware needed to break Bitcoin's signature scheme may be far lower than earlier estimates. Bitcoin security is not one big lock. It's a set of different locks, and quantum doesn't threaten all of them in the same way. So the big q…

Quantum Will Soon Be Able to Crack Bitcoin In Under 9 Minutes

EasyA Co-Founder Dom Kwok has published a post on X highlighting newly released research from Google’s quantum computing team, emphasizing its implications for Bitcoin‘s future security. In the post, Dom Kwok stated that quantum computers could soon break Bitcoin’s cryptographic protections in under nine minutes, with a reported 41 percent success rate under certain conditions. The commentary centers on a recently published paper that examines t…

Quantum Computing Threat to Bitcoin Arrives Earlier Than Forecast

Google's Quantum AI team published a whitepaper showing the computing power needed to break Bitcoin's encryption is far lower than earlier estimates. The research puts roughly 6.9 million bitcoin at heightened risk. The post Google Says Quantum Computers Are Closer to Breaking Bitcoin Than Previously Thought appeared first on TechJuice.