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Trump's Quantum Security Push Puts Bitcoin's Exposed Addresses in Focus

6/24/2026

President Trump is directing government dollars and time toward quantum computing security, a policy shift that researchers say carries direct consequences for bitcoin.

The development puts a long-standing vulnerability in the $BTC network back under the spotlight: millions of bitcoins sitting at exposed public addresses.

The On-Chain Vulnerability Project Eleven Flagged The threat is structural, not speculative.

Research group Project Eleven has previously warned that millions of bitcoins tied to exposed public addresses could be at risk from a sufficiently powerful quantum computer.

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