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r33b3302/19/20254 repliesview on HN

So when does this break crypto and Bitcoin and how to best prepare for this?

Is there any way to secure at all?


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LarsDu8802/20/2025

If you can break bitcoin, you can also break all the encryption we use for banking and other transactions, so might as well stock up on SPAM and ammo.

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ogogmad02/20/2025

Cryptocoins like Bitcoin only need DSA. Quantum-proof DSAs have been widely known since the 1970s*. Bitcoin only needs to change its DSA - and then everything will be fine.

* see Lamport signatures

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atlanta9021002/19/2025

Great question are people predicting we will have enough computing power to "break" bitcoin? How much is needed?

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einpoklum02/19/2025

They can break 1-bit-coin. How's that for ya?