Threat

The crypto industry has spent years debating whether quantum computing poses an existential threat to blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Now, researchers and builders believe artificial intelligence may be accelerating that timeline, and forcing …

Recent progress in quantum computing has reignited a long-standing concern for bitcoin BTC$77,556.58. A sufficiently powerful cryptographically relevant quantum computer could, in theory, break bitcoin’s elliptic curve signatures, exposing coins with visible public keys, …

In brief A leaked draft post revealed Anthropic’s most powerful AI model, Claude Mythos. The model also appears to introduce a new tier above Opus, internally referred to as “Capybara.” Cybersecurity stocks declined after …

UBS CEO Sergio Ermotti said at Davos this week that Bitcoin needs to overcome the quantum computing threat. Ermotti joins a growing chorus of concerned financiers that includes Jefferies’ head of equity strategy Christopher …

Advances in quantum computing doesn’t just threaten Bitcoin wallet security, it could also undermine its economic and security model as it could be used to mine Bitcoin blocks far more efficiently, according to Coinbase’s …

Hyundai Group evacuated employees from two major offices in Seoul today after receiving a bomb threat email demanding payment in bitcoin, police said.  Authorities later confirmed the threat was a hoax, but the incident …