Project Eleven’s Bitcoin Prize Triggers Fight Over Claimed Quantum Break of ECC

Project Eleven awarded independent researcher Giancarlo Lelli a 1 BTC prize, worth about $78,000, after claiming he completed the largest public quantum attack on elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) so far. The company said Lelli recovered a 15-bit elliptic curve private key from its public key using a publicly available quantum computer and a version of […] Read The Full Article Project Eleven’s Bitcoin Prize Triggers Fight Over Claimed Quantum Break of ECC On Coin Edition.