{"id":642150,"date":"2026-07-27T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=642150"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:45:00","slug":"blackrock-says-crypto-can-outrun-the-quantum-threat-if-it-moves-fast-enough-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=642150","title":{"rendered":"BlackRock Says Crypto Can Outrun The Quantum Threat… If It Moves Fast Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"

BlackRock Says Crypto Can Outrun The Quantum Threat… If It Moves Fast Enough<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Mathew Di Salvo via BitcoinMagazine.com,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

BlackRock, the world\u2019s biggest asset manager, has chimed in on the crypto-quantum debate – and is surprisingly optimistic.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The firm, which manages over $15 trillion in assets,\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0in its new report, Quantum Computing and Blockchains, that upgrading existing cryptography to quantum-resistant standards is a far easier task than actually building a functional quantum computer capable of breaking that cryptography.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIn our view, PQ migration for cryptocurrencies is eminently addressable from a technical standpoint, and the key challenge is one of timely coordination and implementation,\u201d<\/strong><\/em> the report read.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The crypto community has sounded the alarm about hypothetical advancements in quantum computers that could in the future be able to break Bitcoin\u2019s cryptography. Some in the space \u2014 including Bitcoin developers \u2014 have started preparing for a post-quantum future by testing quantum-resistant signatures on live sidechains.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Quantum computers do exist but make mistakes and a machine that can break Bitcoin\u2019s cryptography currently does not exist. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Bitcoin currently is the biggest computer network in existence.\u00a0<\/p>\n

BlackRock has\u00a0skin in the game<\/a>\u00a0after having debuted in 2024 spot Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded funds. <\/strong>BlackRock\u2019s Bitcoin fund had the most successful launch in the history of the ETF industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n

BlackRock boss Larry Fink has also talked of Bitcoin being \u201cdigital gold\u201d and an \u201cinternational asset\u201d and has spoken about how crypto networks can help tokenize everything.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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JUST IN: Michael Saylor announces Strategy, BlackRock, Fidelity and Coinbase are pledging $15 million to support open source Bitcoin development “for the decades ahead.” \ud83d\ude80 pic.twitter.com\/W5q60ph9n3<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) July 23, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

BlackRock\u2019s views on Bitcoin\u00a0<\/h2>\n

The report said that while solutions exist for protecting Bitcoin against quantum computers \u2014 it is technically simple to upgrade \u2014 coordination is hard given the cryptocurrency\u2019s decentralized, consensus-driven development.<\/p>\n

BlackRock noted that about 35% of circulating Bitcoin\u2019s supply is potentially vulnerable to certain attack types due to exposed public keys, and 11-19% may be permanently lost regardless of migration.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Along with crypto bigwigs like Coinbase, Fidelity Digital Assets, and Block, BlackRock on Thursday\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0a new Bitcoin Security Consortium aimed at donating funds to engineers to help their open-source work supporting proposals like BIP-360.<\/p>\n

The asset manager added in the report that while BIP-360 is a credible, well-designed piece of a larger puzzle, it stopped short of calling it the solution. Still, it added that Bitcoin and other crypto networks had the advantage.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThat said, it is a much less daunting task to upgrade current cryptographic systems (including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and others) to a quantum-secure standard than it is to build a CRQC from where quantum computing progress stands today,\u201d<\/strong><\/em> the report noted.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThus, advantage remains decidedly with the defense, at the current juncture.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nMon, 07\/27\/2026 – 11:45<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BlackRock Says Crypto Can Outrun The Quantum Threat… If It Moves Fast Enough Authored by Mathew Di Salvo via BitcoinMagazine.com, BlackRock, the world\u2019s biggest asset manager, has chimed in on the crypto-quantum debate – and is surprisingly optimistic. The firm, which manages over $15 trillion in assets,\u00a0said\u00a0in its new report, Quantum Computing and Blockchains, that… Continue reading BlackRock Says Crypto Can Outrun The Quantum Threat… If It Moves Fast Enough<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":642140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=642150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/642140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=642150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=642150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=642150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}