Quantum Researchers Offer 1 Bitcoin To Break Toy Version Of BTC’s Cryptography
A quantum‑computing collective known as Project Eleven has thrown down a public gauntlet to the global cryptography community, offering a reward of one Bitcoin to the first team that can break a deliberately down‑scaled version of Bitcoin’s elliptic‑curve cryptography using a genuine quantum computer before 5 April 2026. Announcing what it calls the “Q‑Day Prize” […]
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