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Project Eleven Awards 1 BTC Q-Day Prize for Largest Quantum Attack on Elliptic Curve Cryptography to Date Researcher breaks 15-bit ECC key on publicly accessible quantum hardware in a 512x jump from the previous public demonstration. Project Eleven today awarded the Q-Day Prize, a one Bitcoin bounty, to Giancarlo Lelli for breaking a 15-bit elliptic curve key on a publicly accessible quantum computer. The result is the largest public demonstration to date of the attack class that threatens Bitcoin, Ethereum, and over $2.5 trillion in ECC-secured digital assets. "The resource requirements for this type of attack keep dropping, and the barrier to running it in practice is dropping with them," said @apruden08, CEO of Project Eleven. "The winning submission came from an independent researcher working on cloud-accessible hardware. No national lab, no private chip. It shows that tangible progress is possible and highlights the urgency to migrate to post-quantum cryptography sooner rather than later. Google just committed to being quantum-secure by 2029. The window to get ahead of this is closing.” Lelli derived a private key from its public key across a search space of 32,767 using a variant of Shor’s algorithm. Shor's targets the Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem (ECDLP), the math underlying the digital signature schemes securing Bitcoin, Ethereum, and most blockchains. Quantum attacks on ECC have moved from theory to practice over the last seven months. Steve Tippeconnic's 6-bit demonstration in September 2025 was the first public break on quantum hardware. Lelli's 15-bit result extends it by a factor of 512. Theoretical resource estimates for a full 256-bit attack, the scale Bitcoin operates at, have fallen sharply over the same period. Google's April 2026 whitepaper put the requirement at under 500,000 physical qubits. A subsequent paper from Caltech and Oratomic brought that figure as low as 10,000 qubits in a neutral-atom architecture. Lelli's result is the practical counterpart to those optimizations. The distance from 15 bits to 256 bits is large, but the gap is increasingly viewed as an engineering problem and not a fundamental physics problem. Roughly 6.9 million Bitcoin sit in wallets whose public keys are visible on-chain, exposing them to quantum attack. All blockchains using ECC share similar risks with vulnerable assets. Project Eleven is developing its next challenge, focused on the intersection of frontier AI models and quantum cryptanalysis.

🚨 BREAKING: Hungary violated EU law when it banned children from accessing LGBTQ+ content, the Court of Justice of the EU has ruled. Read the full story: politico.eu/article/eu-top…

Let’s finish the sentence. “And the only way to do this will be with mandatory ID verification across the entire Internet.” 🤦♂️



Une centaine d'éleveurs de Savoie et de Haute-Savoie manifestent contre l'abattage total des vaches. « Personne nous écoute, tout le monde nous a oublié ». 📸@jean_bexon









The Global M2 Money Supply continues to take off vertically (see white circled area on right side of image) Global M2 is essentially tied with previous ATHs now. Only 2-3 weeks until fun mode begins (Mar ~25)


Si les cryptos restent dans un range pendant encore 1 à 2 mois ou même corrigent encore un peu : - Ce sera la panique sur Twitter. - Plusieurs vont gambler encore plus. - Certains vont remettre la totalité de leur gains ou de leur capital au marché par des leviers. - D'autre vont se bruler. Alors qu'en réalité, il fallait seulement holder des cryptos de qualité pendant encore 4 à 10 mois pour les gros gains. Veuillez voir ma dernière vidéo Youtube pour les détails et éviter ces pièges ! Et surtout restez relax. Les guerriers finissent par gagner dans ce marché









