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The web is laughing at El Salvador’s ‘quantum-safe’ bitcoin

By Editorial Board Published September 1, 2025 2 Min Read
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The web is laughing at El Salvador’s ‘quantum-safe’ bitcoin

Social media has been laughing at studies that El Salvador has break up its bitcoin (BTC) holdings throughout 14 addresses, allegedly to guard towards quantum hacks.

The nation’s Bitcoin Workplace, managed by Max Keiser’s colourful spouse Stacy Herbert, claimed that the transfer was preparation for “potential developments in quantum computing.”

Nevertheless, few individuals have been capable of take the announcement severely.

“El Salvador prepping to sell their bitcoin!” screamed influencer Jacob King, calling the quantum argument “laughable and a terrible lie.”

Galaxy Digital’s Alex Thorn disagreed that splitting BTC holdings into a number of wallets and ending the reuse of single wallets would supply safety towards quantum assaults. 

King then deleted one publish claiming that certainly one of El Salvador’s new addresses weren’t quantum resistant. Then King proceeded to dam Thorn out of spite, making King’s preliminary declare much more hilarious.

Technically an actual protection, however nonetheless humorous

Thorn appropriately famous that sure kinds of wallets are extra susceptible to quantum computing than others. For instance, addresses may be susceptible in the event that they’re continuously reused or have unspent transaction outputs in a P2PK format.

Nonetheless, the wassie group logged the general incident as hilariously memorable.

Though El Salvador’s distribution of BTC to new wallets is technically useful for restricted kinds of quantum computing, the wallets have little or no probability of defending towards an precise quantum breakthrough.

Certainly, if a quantum laptop have been to achieve the power to interrupt SHA256 cryptography, BTC wallets would in all probability rank among the many tiniest of its multi-trillion greenback targets.

In any case, buyers could transfer holdings round for a wide range of causes that don’t have anything to do with quantum cybersecurity, together with altering {hardware}, sending BTC to chilly storage, or upgrading to a number of signatures for higher safety.

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