Quantum mechanics took 27 years (1900–1927) to produce the hardware civilization. The same physics now threatens its cryptographic layer. Three papers published between May 2025 and March 2026 compressed the qubit estimate to break ECDSA/secp256k1 from 20 million to 500,000 — a 20x drop in unde...
Source: [HackerNoon](https://hackernoon.com/new-quantum-research-is-accelerating-the-timeline-for-post-quantum-migration?source=rss)