On August 18, Project Eleven announced the launch of Bitcoin Risq List version 2.0, a tool that allows to detect and analyze the Bitcoin addresses vulnerable to quantum computing (QC). According to an investigation by Anthony Milton and Clara Shikhelman, 32.7% of the currency circulating is prone to long -range attacks with QC. The direction of El Salvador, with 6,272 BTC, is among the vulnerable supply.
The introduction of the P2SH public direction of El Salvador (32ixedvjwo3kmvjgmtzq5jaqvzzeuwnqzo) in the tool Bitcoin Risq List It shows that the reason for its vulnerability is its reuse.
The country He is a $ 715,732,671 in BTC, at the time of writing.
Mempool.space, Bitcoin’s block explorer, shows that said address It has 337 UTXO (unbeliented outputs) of Bitcoin, and some 829 transactions carried out Since it was created.
A computer quantically capable (that today does not exist) could derive the private key from the public key of El Salvador, a key that is traceable and has a powerful fingerprint since it was revealed in March 2024 by Nayib Bukele in its X account.
From what the president of the Central American Nation is presumed that El Salvador could have Bitcoin’s directions not publicly known, which does not guarantee that they are invulnerable and have not been reused.
Hypothetically speaking, if the total funds of these alternate wallets have never been spent, these BTC of El Salvador would be considered safe.
This is because not spending outputs is the precondition so that many wallets (PKH, P2WPKH, P2SH or P2WSH) Stay, for the moment, without risks.
As we write in cryptootics, approximately 32.7% of the currency circulating supply is prone to long -range attacks with QC.
Therefore, El Salvador is not the only important actor whose Bitcoins must migrate, at one time or another, to a built-in post-quantic defense purse.
For now, the worst positioned entities are the exchanges. As also demonstrated by the Bitcoin Risq Listthe cold wallets of Binance, Robinhood, Bitfinex, OKX and Bitmex are from the directions with the greatest Bitcoin holdings in the world. They all have something in common: They have been reused thousands of times, and have a remarkable fingerprint.
The danger of the QC is present, but the community of analysts and developers do not seem to consider that it is imminent.
It is estimated that the first quantum computer capable of breaking traditional cryptography is still 10 or 15 years away.
The most enthusiastic futurists consider that only 5 or 7 years are missing for the “Q-Day”, the hypothetical moment in which one or more computers break one or more fundamental encryption systems.
