One of the biggest issues facing Bitcoin right now is that it's theoretically vulnerable to having its encryption cracked by a powerful quantum computer. Although no such quantum computers exist now, ...

A mysterious transaction effectively 'burned' 107 Bitcoin. Here's how it happened and the speculations swirling among cryptocurrency owners ...

Bitcoin’s security relies on elliptic curve cryptography, a one-way mathematical function that makes deriving a private key from a public key effectively impossible for traditional computers. Shor’s ...