Bitcoin Faces Renewed Questions After Microsoft’s Quantum Breakthrough
Bitcoin security has just received a new wake-up call. Microsoft unveiled Majorana 2, a quantum chip presented as a major advance towards quantum computers capable of solving problems currently beyond the reach of classical machines. While this innovation does not yet directly threaten the network created by Satoshi Nakamoto, it revives a question that has worried the crypto ecosystem for years: how long will the cryptography protecting bitcoin withstand the rise of quantum computing?