Luring quantum tinkerers, Project Eleven is dangling a one‑bitcoin bounty to whoever first demonstrates Bitcoin’s cryptographic Achilles’ heel using a quantum computer. Will a Single Bitcoin Tempt Hackers to Break Bitcoin’s Armor? Branded the “Q‑Day Prize,” the challenge asks entrants worldwide to crack a toy version of Bitcoin’s elliptic curve cryptography with Shor’s algorithm running […]
Quantum Challenge Offers a Single Bitcoin to Crack the Protocol’s Defense Mechanism
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