With a sufficiently powerful quantum computer, an attacker could calculate a private key from its public key and transfer someone else’s coins to themselves. They would not need access to your hardware wallet or seed phrase, because the attack exploits a weakness in the way transactions are signed. Google Quantum AI has estimated what hardware …

On April 8, 2026, The New York Times published a 12,000-word investigation by John Carreyrou, the journalist who once buried Theranos. The conclusion: the real Satoshi Nakamoto is Adam Back, CEO of Blockstream and a British cryptographer. Carreyrou says his confidence is “between 99.5% and 100%”. Back responded with a post on X: “I am …