Tim Draper says quantum will hack banks before Bitcoin; crypto is more secure and can hard fork to protect records.

Imagine waking up to a world where every bank account, personal message and classified government file is suddenly unprotected and laid open because the encryption that kept billions of secrets safe ...

A rudimentary quantum debit card that can be loaded with unforgeable quantum money has been made from extremely cold atoms and particles of light. In this protocol, a bank issues banknotes made of ...

Amid concerns around the growing quantum threat, an XRP validator recently shared the result of an XRPL quantum vulnerability check. His findings show that about 300,000 accounts out of 7.8 million ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For the past few decades, researchers have understood that quantum computers should eventually be able to crack the widely used codes ...