Is Quantum Doomsday a Distant Threat? Bitcoin is Facing Threats from the Secret Service 🛡️💻
At the ETHDenver conference, developer Hunter Beast dropped an "information bomb": Bitcoin is completely unprepared for the era of quantum computing. He pointed out that while the crypto community is still debating transaction fees, the NSA and the Chinese military are building machines worth billions of dollars that have the capability to crack the RSA encryption standard and the wallets of the 'first cryptocurrency'.
What is at the core of the threat?
Quantum computers can almost instantaneously deduce private keys from public key addresses. Once realized, old wallets (including Satoshi's 1 million BTC) will be the first to suffer.
Opinions are divided into two camps:
🔴 Pessimists (Hunter Beast, Nic Carter): The Secret Service may secretly develop this technology in the coming years. Carter even believes that if Bitcoin Core developers continue to ignore this issue, institutional investors might directly "fire the team and hire new ones".
🟢 Realists (Adam Back, Luke Dashjr): Hashcash inventor Adam Back firmly believes: the real threat is still 20 to 40 years away, and it may never be realized. Luke Dashjr describes this threat as "unrealistic", believing that the network currently has more urgent issues to address.
What does this mean for us?
Analyst Willy Woo believes that 2030 will be the deadline. Before then, Bitcoin must undergo a hard fork and introduce post-quantum cryptography (PQC).
Summary: The technological arms race has already begun. Will this be BTC's "moment of truth", or can developers complete the protocol upgrade before the first quantum machine cracks the network?
Do you think quantum computers are a real risk, or just another scare story to suppress coin prices? Feel free to discuss in the comments! 👇
#比特币 #量子计算 #加密新闻 #ETHDenver #区块链安全
At the ETHDenver conference, developer Hunter Beast dropped an "information bomb": Bitcoin is completely unprepared for the era of quantum computing. He pointed out that while the crypto community is still debating transaction fees, the NSA and the Chinese military are building machines worth billions of dollars that have the capability to crack the RSA encryption standard and the wallets of the 'first cryptocurrency'.
What is at the core of the threat?
Quantum computers can almost instantaneously deduce private keys from public key addresses. Once realized, old wallets (including Satoshi's 1 million BTC) will be the first to suffer.
Opinions are divided into two camps:
🔴 Pessimists (Hunter Beast, Nic Carter): The Secret Service may secretly develop this technology in the coming years. Carter even believes that if Bitcoin Core developers continue to ignore this issue, institutional investors might directly "fire the team and hire new ones".
🟢 Realists (Adam Back, Luke Dashjr): Hashcash inventor Adam Back firmly believes: the real threat is still 20 to 40 years away, and it may never be realized. Luke Dashjr describes this threat as "unrealistic", believing that the network currently has more urgent issues to address.
What does this mean for us?
Analyst Willy Woo believes that 2030 will be the deadline. Before then, Bitcoin must undergo a hard fork and introduce post-quantum cryptography (PQC).
Summary: The technological arms race has already begun. Will this be BTC's "moment of truth", or can developers complete the protocol upgrade before the first quantum machine cracks the network?
Do you think quantum computers are a real risk, or just another scare story to suppress coin prices? Feel free to discuss in the comments! 👇
#比特币 #量子计算 #加密新闻 #ETHDenver #区块链安全