Could Quantum Computers Bring Lost Bitcoin Back to Life?
Quick Breakdown Billions Locked Forever or Not? Around 2.3M–3.7M BTC (11–18% of supply) are lost, but quantum computing raises questions about whether they could one day be recovered. Quantum Threat to Security: Shor’s algorithm could, in theory, break Bitcoin’s ECDSA encryption, but it would require millions of stable qubits, far ...