Quantum Attack Estimates for Bitcoin Are Cut in Half After a New Shor Algorithm Benchmark
ECDSA.Fail reduced a secp256k1 Shor-circuit benchmark to 1.496 billion Q×T, though it does not represent a full Bitcoin attack estimate.
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