{"id":14926,"date":"2025-09-11T23:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T06:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=14926"},"modified":"2025-09-13T10:16:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T17:16:35","slug":"bitcoins-death-clock-is-ticking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=14926","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin&#8217;s death clock is ticking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=5469\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=5469\">As I have written about before<\/a>, Bitcoin and similar digital currencies days are numbered with the increasing stability of quantum computers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A renewed debate has started on exactly when quantum computers will be able to undermine the elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) and SHA-256 hashing algorithms that secure Bitcoin wallets and transactions. Some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2025\/06\/bitcoins-countdown-has-begun-experts-reveal-when-quantum-computers-will-finally-shatter-its-legendary-encryption\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2025\/06\/bitcoins-countdown-has-begun-experts-reveal-when-quantum-computers-will-finally-shatter-its-legendary-encryption\/\">suggest may be just a few years while others believe we have several decades<\/a> &#8211; but one thing is certain &#8211; the clock is ticking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientists, financial analysts, and economists are watching quantum computing developments very closely as a quantum computing breakthrough would make crypto-currencies, NFTs, and other digital assets worthless overnight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A nefarious organization\/country with a quantum computer functional enough to crack even partial amounts of crypto currency might be able to steal billions in assets in hours or days &#8211; before anyone knows what is going on nor have any way to stop them. The effect would be nearly instantaneous drop to 0 for the value of any assets secured in this way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I have written about before, Bitcoin and similar digital currencies days are numbered with the increasing stability of quantum computers. A renewed debate has started on exactly when quantum computers will be able to undermine the elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) and SHA-256 hashing algorithms that secure Bitcoin wallets and transactions. Some suggest may be just a few years while others believe we have several decades &#8211; but one thing is certain &#8211; the clock is ticking. Scientists, financial analysts,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=14926\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-3SK","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14926"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15160,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14926\/revisions\/15160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}