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What if someone hacked your Bitcoin wallet and ended up paying you for the theft? That is the idea behind a proposal from Bitcoin Core developer Cory Fields. As Bitcoin prepares for Q-Day, when powerful quantum computers could break its current cryptography, Fields wants to make stealing vulnerable coins a costly gamble. On November 4, The post Bitcoin Developer Proposes a Quantum Trap for Hackers appeared first on BeInCrypto .

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• https://beincrypto.com/bitcoin-quantum-hackers-traps-old-wallets/

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