{"id":234353,"date":"2026-03-31T10:04:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T15:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/google-warns-quantum-computers-could-break-bitcoin-and-ethereum-encryption-in-9-minutes-are-your-btc-and-eth-at-risk"},"modified":"2026-03-31T10:04:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T15:04:18","slug":"google-warns-quantum-computers-could-break-bitcoin-and-ethereum-encryption-in-9-minutes-are-your-btc-and-eth-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/google-warns-quantum-computers-could-break-bitcoin-and-ethereum-encryption-in-9-minutes-are-your-btc-and-eth-at-risk","title":{"rendered":"Google Warns Quantum Computers Could Break Bitcoin and Ethereum Encryption in 9 Minutes \u2014 Are Your BTC and ETH at Risk?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-warns-quantum-computers-could-break-bitcoin-and-ethereum-encryption-in-9-minutes-are-your-btc-and-eth-at-risk2.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In short: The \u201clock\u201d on the vault hasn\u2019t been broken yet, but Google just published the blueprint for the bolt cutters, and they are much smaller than we imagined.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Google\u2019s latest research warns quantum computers could break Bitcoin and Ethereum encryption faster than expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In short: The \u201clock\u201d on the vault hasn\u2019t been broken yet, but Google just published the blueprint for the bolt cutters, and they are much smaller than we imagined. Google\u2019s latest research warns quantum computers could break Bitcoin and Ethereum encryption faster than expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1523,1761,1625,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-computing","category-cryptocurrencies","category-encryption","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}