Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has raised a serious alarm for the cryptocurrency world: there’s a 20% chance that quantum computers could break current cryptographic systems by 2030. While this ...

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has sent a harsh warning about the dangers posed by quantum computing to the crypto economy. "Seemingly," there is a 20% chance of quantum computers breaking modern ...

Building a utility-scale quantum computer that can crack one of the most vital cryptosystems—elliptic curves—doesn’t require nearly the resources anticipated just a year or two ago, two independently ...

This article is part of a package on the future of quantum computing. Read about the most promising applications of these machines here and see an illustrated field guide to qubits here. Inside a ...