Only 10,000 qubits would be enough to threaten Bitcoin cryptography: New study

A team of researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the startup Oratomic presented a study that drastically reduces the hardware needed to run Shor’s algorithm, the quantum method capable of breaking the cryptography that protects Bitcoin. The publication occurred almost in parallel with the study published by Google and the quantum threat … Read more

the reorganization was normal behavior

The renowned Bitcoin developer and researcher known as b10c, published this Friday a technical conclusion that rules out the existence of a “selfish mining” attack (selfish mining) after the recent reorganization of two blocks that occurred on the network this week. According to the analysisthe event, which initially created uncertainty in the communitywas due to … Read more

Vitalik finances an open source vaccine against COVID-19

Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, published this March 17 his support for the development of “open source vaccines” whose objective would be to allow open participation in the analysis and manufacturing of the vaccine. The announcement is framed within the agenda “d/acc” (English acronym decentralized accelerationdecentralized acceleration) from the developer, as stated that “the full … Read more