The cryptocurrency community begins to worry about a new generation of super-powerful computers-which could turn the digital-legged monetary world.
Quantum computing promises advanced calculations beyond binary limitations of some or zeros, and may be the foreshadowing of future advances.
But cryptocurrency adherents begin to question whether your digital monetary system is prepared for what this new data processing era can bring.
“O Technological jump Quantum computing may pose new risks to cryptocurrency users and potentially undermine Blockchain’s cryptographic spine, ”he explains to the CCO of the neural quantum computer company Quera, Yuval Boger.
According to Boger, although the immediate risks are low, the future may see large -scale quantum computers with error correctioncapable of performing algorithms that could break the elliptical curve cryptography (ECC) used by Bitcoin as one of the main safety protocols in the sector.
“Although current quantum computers are not yet powerful enough, The risk is real in the long run“, it says Isaac KigProfessor of Computer Science at UC Davis, in a recent to the Cryptocurrency Labs Research Company.
“There is slight differences between risk levels For each different type of cryptocurrency, Any blockchain that uses ECClike Bitcoin and Ethereum, they are vulnerable, ”notes Kim.
“Cryptocurrencies are poorly prepared“This Investigator Monday said Rick Maeda in a Coindesk on Monday. “The biggest risk is simply to wait too long.”
According to, although some members of the cryptian community are apparently ignoring the imminent threat represented by quantum computing, At the closed door, important figures in the sector are concerned with the potential catastrophe that can be shot down on cryptocurrencies.
Experts now believe that the industry has less than a decadeperhaps just a few years to implement contingency plans against the “quantum apocalypse” that threatens the crypto.
And even this deadline can be optimistic: in a new article published last month, Craig GidneyGoogle Quantum researcher, suggests that the encryption used by Bitcoin could be exceeded using 20 times less resources quantums of what was estimated earlier.
Given the severity of the threat of quantum computing, it is crucial proactive approach, to anticipate disruption In an industry that is worth hundreds of thousands of euros annually, they said in 2024 Kent University researchers, which details how this approach could be.
A only way to avoid disturbances on a large scale for an asset like Bitcoin, the study authors say, is Update or replace systems of current public key by others, who do not have vulnerabilities known to quantum attacks – known as “Post-quantic cryptosystems“.
This type of complete protocol update would leave the offline cryptocurrency For 76 days, explains the.
More realistically, the network could dedicate only 1/4 of your ability processing to update, allowing users to continue to mine and negotiate at a slower pace – in which case the time of inactivity would be estimated in ten months.
This risk of inactivity has been shown a “fundamental barrier” to face the imminent challenge and the community has resisted to advance with updates-which are inevitable.
“We can’t wait until the threat manifests itself to start taking it seriously. At that time, it will be too late“Highlights Rick Maeda.
