{"id":4389,"date":"2024-12-18T07:18:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T07:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=4389"},"modified":"2024-12-18T07:18:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T07:18:04","slug":"bitcoin-could-require-over-300-days-of-downtime-to-prepare-it-for-the-quantum-era-shows-study-amid-google-willow-chip-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=4389","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Could Require Over 300 Days Of Downtime To Prepare It For The Quantum Era, Shows Study Amid Google &#8216;Willow&#8217; Chip Concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) might need to undergo a costly and time-consuming update process to ward off the threat from quantum computing in the future, according to a Tuesday report that cited a study.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: The study, led by\u00a0the University of Kent&#8217;s School\u00a0of Computing, estimated that a protocol update to protect Bitcoin from quantum computing threats would require taking the cryptocurrency offline for about 76 days provided 100% of the bandwidth is committed to the process, Forbes <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2024\/12\/17\/bitcoin-downtime-update-quantum-computing-attack-study\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, if\u00a025% of the bandwidth is allowed, which would allow users to continue mining and trading at a slower pace, the update would take &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/12\/42546731\/bitcoin-could-require-over-300-days-of-downtime-to-prepare-it-for-the-quantum-era-shows-st\" alt=\"Bitcoin\" could require over days of downtime to prepare it for the quantum era shows study amid google chip concern>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) might need to undergo a costly and time-consuming update process to ward off the threat from quantum computing in the future, according to a Tuesday report that cited a study. What Happened: The study, led by\u00a0the University of Kent&#8217;s School\u00a0of Computing, estimated that a protocol update to protect Bitcoin from quantum computing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-4389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}