United States6.4 million bitcoin have public keys already exposed.
Those coins are 30.2% of supply, the Quantum Alliance estimates.
A future quantum computer could derive a wallet’s secret key from its public key, which no current machine can.
Those coins cannot be stolen today because no existing quantum computer is powerful enough, the alliance said.
The alliance’s 9 companies are drafting shared standards, while freeze proposals face property-rights objections.
How each outlet framed it
- CoinDesk
- quotes a quantum-threat CEO predicting that whoever first builds a CRQC could take Satoshi's coins with government blessing
Sources: CoinDesk