🚨 AI Agents Slash Cost of Quantum Attack on Bitcoin by 86%
Researchers from Eigen Labs, Ethereum Foundation, and Theta Labs have used AI coding agents to drastically reduce the computing power needed for a potential quantum attack on Bitcoin and Ethereum. The study reveals an 86% reduction in the resource benchmark required to crack the secp256k1 encryption that secures private keys.
The competition, ECDSA.Fail, saw participants cut the resource score from 10.75 billion to just 1.496 billion. The leading design used 1,151 logical qubits and 1.3 million Toffoli gates, which is roughly half the resources previously estimated by Google Quantum AI.
#Bitcoin #QuantumComputing #AI #CryptoSecurity
Researchers from Eigen Labs, Ethereum Foundation, and Theta Labs have used AI coding agents to drastically reduce the computing power needed for a potential quantum attack on Bitcoin and Ethereum. The study reveals an 86% reduction in the resource benchmark required to crack the secp256k1 encryption that secures private keys.
The competition, ECDSA.Fail, saw participants cut the resource score from 10.75 billion to just 1.496 billion. The leading design used 1,151 logical qubits and 1.3 million Toffoli gates, which is roughly half the resources previously estimated by Google Quantum AI.
#Bitcoin #QuantumComputing #AI #CryptoSecurity