AI Just Cut the Cost of Cracking Bitcoin’s Encryption in Half. Is Q-Day Getting Closer?

A new cryptography paper has cut the estimated cost of one key step in a future attack on Bitcoin’s encryption by roughly 50% compared with Google Quantum AI’s March benchmark.

So does a 50% cut in two months move Q-Day closer?

The agents proposed changes that could reduce the computational cost, while human researchers tested and verified those suggestions before they were included.

ECDSA.fail’s open community and AI agents more than halved Google’s benchmark score in about two months.”

The paper does not move Q-Day closer by itself because no quantum computer ran the attack.