Bitcoin Developer Proposes a Quantum Trap for Hackers
By Luis Blanco
What if someone hacked your Bitcoin wallet and ended up paying you for the theft? That is the idea behind a proposal from Bitcoin Core developer Cory Fields. As Bitcoin prepares for Q-Day, when powerful quantum computers could break its current cryptography, Fields wants to make stealing vulnerable coins a costly…
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Bitcoin
The first and largest cryptocurrency, created in 2009, with a fixed maximum supply and no central issuer.
Its price swings and adoption by funds and companies make it a bellwether for the whole crypto market.
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Computing that uses the principles of quantum physics to solve certain problems far faster than ordinary computers.
It could transform areas like chemistry and cryptography, though practical machines are still developing.
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