{"id":79709,"date":"2026-04-07T18:01:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=79709"},"modified":"2026-04-07T18:01:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:01:32","slug":"nobel-physicist-warns-bitcoin-could-be-cracked-in-minutes-but-the-community-has-5-10-years-to-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=79709","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Physicist Warns Bitcoin Could Be Cracked In Minutes, But The Community Has 5-10 Years To Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Nobel Prize-winning physicist John Martinis warns <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) could be cracked in minutes by quantum computers but says the community has 5-10 years to upgrade to quantum-resistant encryption.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Minutes Warning<\/h3>\n<p>A recent Google paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2026\/04\/07\/bitcoin-quantum-threat-is-real-and-closer-than-it-looks-says-nobel-physicist\">endorsed<\/a> by Martinis shows how a sufficiently advanced quantum computer could derive a Bitcoin private key from its public key in minutes, exploiting the brief window when a transaction\u2019s public key is exposed before confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability centers on a specific exposure window.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When a Bitcoin transaction is broadcast, its public key becomes visible before it is confirmed on-chain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A powerful quantum computer could use that window to derive the corresponding private key and redirect funds before final settlement.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Low-Hanging Fruit<\/h3>\n<p>Breaking cryptography is one of the easier &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/04\/51687930\/nobel-physicist-warns-bitcoin-could-be-cracked-in-minutes-but-the-community-has-5-10-years-?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Nobel\" physicist warns bitcoin could be cracked in minutes but the community has years to act>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobel Prize-winning physicist John Martinis warns Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) could be cracked in minutes by quantum computers but says the community has 5-10 years to upgrade to quantum-resistant encryption. The Minutes Warning A recent Google paper endorsed by Martinis shows how a sufficiently advanced quantum computer could derive a Bitcoin private key from its public [&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-79709","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\/79709","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=79709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}