{"id":71612,"date":"2026-02-09T19:01:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=71612"},"modified":"2026-02-09T19:01:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:01:37","slug":"3-reasons-why-the-bitcoin-quantum-threat-is-overstated-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=71612","title":{"rendered":"3 Reasons Why The &#8216;Bitcoin Quantum Threat&#8217; Is Overstated: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Fears around quantum computing breaking <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) are overstated as the practical threat is distant, limited in scope, and manageable through gradual protocol upgrades, according to a new research report by CoinShares.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Quantum Risk Is Long-Dated And Narrow<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Only about 10,200 BTC, held in a small number of large legacy Pay-to-Public-Key (P2PK) addresses, could pose a meaningful market risk if compromised, CoinShares <a href=\"https:\/\/coinshares.com\/corp\/insights\/research-data\/quantum-vulnerability-in-bitcoin-a-manageable-risk\/\">noted<\/a> in its report. <\/p>\n<p>That figure far below claims that 2%\u201350% of Bitcoin&#8217;s supply is vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>While roughly 1.6 million BTC remain in legacy address formats, coordinated attacks are highly impractical even &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/02\/50490833\/3-reasons-why-the-bitcoin-quantum-threat-is-overstated-report?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"3\" reasons why the quantum threat is overstated: report>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fears around quantum computing breaking Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) are overstated as the practical threat is distant, limited in scope, and manageable through gradual protocol upgrades, according to a new research report by CoinShares. Quantum Risk Is Long-Dated And Narrow Only about 10,200 BTC, held in a small number of large legacy Pay-to-Public-Key (P2PK) addresses, could [&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-71612","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\/71612","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=71612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}