El Salvador has announced plans to split its vast bitcoin holdings into multiple wallets in order to protect against potential quantum attacks. The Central American country owns roughly half a billion ...

Alex Pruden said the asymmetry between acting on a post-quantum signature scheme today and waiting for certainty about quantum-computing hardware timelines means Bitcoin developers should move from ...

By the time Bitcoin and other networks are ready to defend themselves, it may already be too late, according to a new ...

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are now embedded in the global financial system. Countries are creating strategic reserves, and institutional investors, from hedge funds to pension schemes, are ...

El Salvador, the country with one of the largest Bitcoin treasuries, made a surprising move on Aug. 30 when it transferred its BTC holdings to 14 new addresses. The Bitcoin Office of the country ...

El Salvador has overhauled how it stores the nation’s bitcoin, saying the change both strengthens security today and prepares for technological risks that could emerge in the future. In an ...

El Salvador transferred more than $678 million worth of Bitcoin into several wallets for security purposes. The government moved approximately 6,274 BTC from a single national address into 14 separate ...

Quantum computer breaks Bitcoin-style encryption for the first time. Learn what this breakthrough means for BTC security and ...

Most quantum-vulnerable Bitcoin sits in wallets holding under 100 Bitcoin, with CoinShares claiming it could take a millennium to compromise each one. Digital asset manager CoinShares has brushed ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Javier Bastardo is a Venezuelan covering Bitcoin news since 2017. On February 11 the most concrete action Bitcoin developers have ...

Bitcoin transactions could be resistant to quantum attacks without changing the network’s core rules, a new proposal contends. A new research proposal claims it can make Bitcoin transactions resistant ...