Bitcoin’s long-term design came under renewed scrutiny on Friday after VanEck CEO Jan van Eck questioned whether the network provides sufficient encryption and privacy during an appearance on CNBC’s ...

Will Google supercomputers land a deathblow to bitcoin and the rest of the crypto industry? Last month, Google revealed in a scientific paper that it was able to develop quantum computers that could ...

It is still unknown how long it will be before real working quantum computers appear, and blockchaindevelopers are already worried about their ability to break encryption. Cryptocurrencies are based ...

New research by Google suggested that RSA encryption, a critical security feature used in securing Bitcoin BTC/USD, may be more susceptible to quantum computing attacks than previously anticipated.

Cryptocurrency is a type of digital or virtual currency that uses cryptography for security. Unlike traditional currencies issued by governments (like the US Dollar or Euro), cryptocurrencies are ...

At the core of this scholarly book is a dissection of bitcoin's biggest achievement. That is the transmission of value over the internet, an inherently insecure channel, without any reliance on a ...