Morning Edition · Monday, July 27, 2026Published at 1:22 AM EDT · New York
Cardano's Hoskinson Says Bitcoin Could Lose Its Lead If Governance Fails a Quantum Test
He argues Bitcoin's rigid decision-making, not the cryptography alone, is the vulnerability, citing that more than 34% of the supply has exposed a public key.
Charles Hoskinson, co-founder of the Cardano blockchain and of the smart-contract platform Ethereum, said Bitcoin could eventually lose its dominant position if its governance fails to respond to the threat from quantum computing. He made t…
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