When can a quantum computer destroy bitcoin?
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9 min readSep 13, 2019
How can quantum computers affect bitcoin? Of course, the elliptic curve crytography has been under scrutiny since the quantum computing hype began. Bitcoin was built to replace third party trust with cryptographic proof. But it’s not just bitcoin. Two of the most common cryptosystems are Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC). When you are online, any information that you exchange will…