Researcher wins 1 bitcoin bounty for 'largest quantum attack' on underlying tech
Giancarlo Lelli's 15-bit elliptic curve break, 512 times larger than the previous public record from September 2025, earned the roughly $78,000 bounty from startup Project Eleven, adding urgency to post-quantum migration plans such as Bitcoin's proposed BIP-360.
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