As Google warns that the elliptic curve cryptography protecting the Bitcoin blockchain might be at risk sooner than expected, how close are we to cryptogeddon?

Google's Quantum AI team said earlier this week that a future quantum computer could derive a bitcoin private key from a public key in roughly nine minutes. The number ricocheted across social media ...

Losing a private key means losing access to Bitcoin permanently because there is no recovery system. For long-term storage, offline wallets like hardware devices or metal backups reduce risk exposure.