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by josephcsible 1610 days ago
Bitcoin relies on the security of ECC too. Doesn't that take way fewer qubits to break?
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I don't think so, since computing a (double) SHA256 hash is vastly cheaper to compute than multiplying an elliptic curve point with a scalar. So much so, that by default (assumevalid=1), Bitcoin skips verifying signatures up to some recent date in its initial sync.