{"id":652325,"date":"2026-09-03T01:30:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T01:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=844279"},"modified":"2026-09-03T01:30:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T01:30:36","slug":"fidelity-warns-bitcoins-private-keys-face-future-quantum-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/03\/fidelity-warns-bitcoins-private-keys-face-future-quantum-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Fidelity Warns Bitcoin\u2019s Private Keys Face Future Quantum Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/fidelity-investments-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"fidelity investments\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Fidelity Digital Assets says future quantum computers could derive Bitcoin private keys from exposed public keys, threatening funds. A proposed hash-based signature system could strengthen security, although larger signatures would reduce transaction throughput and complicate wallet recovery. Fidelity Examines Bitcoin\u2019s Quantum Vulnerability Bitcoin\u2019s private-key protections may eventually require replacement or supplementation, according to the Fidelity [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fidelity Digital Assets says future quantum computers could derive Bitcoin private keys from exposed public keys, threatening funds. A proposed hash-based signature system could strengthen security, although larger signatures would reduce transaction throughput and complicate wallet recovery. Fidelity Examines Bitcoin\u2019s Quantum Vulnerability Bitcoin\u2019s private-key protections may eventually require replacement or supplementation, according to the Fidelity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":652326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-652325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}