An Open Leaderboard Just Undercut Google's Bitcoin-Cracking Math — September 11, 2026
An open, crowdsourced contest of humans and AI agents claims it cut the estimated quantum cost of a key Bitcoin-cracking step by 86%, undercutting a Google benchmark — but the paper's own authors warn the comparison isn't apples-to-apples. Plus: Novo Holdings says quantum investors are overweight hardware, and Chalmers researchers find a 1,000x speedup for bosonic qubit operations.
ECDSA.Fail paper — arXiv
Researchers And AI Agents Cut Estimated Quantum Cost of Attacking Bitcoin Encryption by 86% — The Quantum Insider
Novo Holdings Report: Quantum Investment Must Move Beyond Hardware to Build…
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