The search giant set a corporate deadline to migrate all authentication services to quantum-resistant cryptography, validating the timeline Ethereum has been building toward for eight years. Bitcoin's response so far has been silence.
The crypto industry's reaction was that a quantum computing threat was still distant when Google unveiled its Willow quantum chip in December 2024.
Bitcoin uses SHA-256 for mining and ECDSA for signatures, both of which are theoretically vulnerable t... [7882 chars]