Bitcoin Quantum Recovery Tool Proves Feasible—but Satoshi’s 1.1 Million BTC Still Lack Protection
Bitcoin’s oldest vulnerability didn’t disappear when the network grew into a trillion-dollar asset. The risk that quantum computers could one day forge digital signatures and steal coins from exposed addresses has lingered since the beginning. Now a group called Project Eleven has funded a proof-of-concept that offers a recovery path—but only for wallets that use a specific key derivation structure. And the most famous stash on the network doesn’t qualify.