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Laurie • Nov 2, 2026, 9:08 am EST

Quantum Computing Breakthrough: Is Your Bitcoin Really at Risk?

Headlines are warning that quantum computers could crack Bitcoin wallets in just 62 minutes. But behind the alarming claims is a very different reality: the technology required to perform such an attack has yet to be demonstrated, and the latest research remains theoretical.Researchers at French quantum computing company Alice & Bob recently published a model suggesting that a future quantum computer could potentially break Bitcoin’s public-key cryptography using approximately 30,000 physical qubits.That’s roughly 17 times less hardware than an earlier Google estimate, although the two studies use different technical assumptions.The findings have generated attention across cryptocurrency news outlets, but some

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arusso • Jul 7, 2023, 11:26 am EDT

Mathematicians Bridge a Gap in Number Theory

Two mathematicians have proven an important result connecting elliptic curves to modular forms, extending a breakthrough achieved in the 1990s that led to the solution of Fermat’s Last Theorem. Ana Caraiani of Imperial College London and the University of Bonn, and James Newton of the University of Oxford announced in January that they had shown that elliptic curves are modular for certain imaginary quadratic fields. Their work builds on Andrew Wiles’ 1994 proof that elliptic curves are modular for rational numbers, meaning that for each elliptic curve, there exists a corresponding modular form — an object from analysis, a branch

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