The post No, a quantum computer didn’t break SHA-256 or Bitcoin appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. SHA-256 became a trending topic last night on X after another round of quantum fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) spread across Bitcoin social media. According to a viral post, financial analysts at Standard Chartered published a recommendation to sell bitcoin (BTC) and buy gold on “credible rumors a quantum computer has cracked SHA-256.” Neither of those things actually occurred. No quantum computer cracked SHA-256 this week, and Standard Chartered didn’t recommend selling BTC for gold. The author admitted the source of the supposed news: “Oh I made it up.” Laughing at gullible users on X, they commented on the post’s popularity, saying, “BTC community is really this stupid.” Emulating the side-by-side logo style of Bitcoin historian Pete Rizzo, the original post gained over 30,000 impressions, quote-tweets in their thousands, and hundreds of likes. Read more: The internet is laughing at El Salvador’s ‘quantum-safe’ bitcoin Another fake quantum attack on Bitcoin Bitcoin miners use SHA-256 to hash blocks of transactions and earn the right to claim coinbase rewards and add data to the ledger. If a quantum computer were ever able to crack SHA-256, it might be able to take over Bitcoin’s hashpower and censor or stall new transactions entering the blockchain. Fake news about BTC circulates on a daily basis on X. Protos has previously covered fake news about Saudi Aramco mining BTC, Luke Dashjr advocating for a BTC hard fork, the Dutch government creating a strategic bitcoin reserve, Apple buying BTC, California seizing idle bitcoin, California adopting bitcoin, Kamala Harris taxing unsold BTC, Amazon adding BTC as a payment method, and countless other social media claims that never occurred. Most forms of modern cryptography, including large internet and financial security services, also rely on SHA-256. If a quantum computer ever cracked this algorithm, trillions of dollars in the global… The post No, a quantum computer didn’t break SHA-256 or Bitcoin appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. SHA-256 became a trending topic last night on X after another round of quantum fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) spread across Bitcoin social media. According to a viral post, financial analysts at Standard Chartered published a recommendation to sell bitcoin (BTC) and buy gold on “credible rumors a quantum computer has cracked SHA-256.” Neither of those things actually occurred. No quantum computer cracked SHA-256 this week, and Standard Chartered didn’t recommend selling BTC for gold. The author admitted the source of the supposed news: “Oh I made it up.” Laughing at gullible users on X, they commented on the post’s popularity, saying, “BTC community is really this stupid.” Emulating the side-by-side logo style of Bitcoin historian Pete Rizzo, the original post gained over 30,000 impressions, quote-tweets in their thousands, and hundreds of likes. Read more: The internet is laughing at El Salvador’s ‘quantum-safe’ bitcoin Another fake quantum attack on Bitcoin Bitcoin miners use SHA-256 to hash blocks of transactions and earn the right to claim coinbase rewards and add data to the ledger. If a quantum computer were ever able to crack SHA-256, it might be able to take over Bitcoin’s hashpower and censor or stall new transactions entering the blockchain. Fake news about BTC circulates on a daily basis on X. Protos has previously covered fake news about Saudi Aramco mining BTC, Luke Dashjr advocating for a BTC hard fork, the Dutch government creating a strategic bitcoin reserve, Apple buying BTC, California seizing idle bitcoin, California adopting bitcoin, Kamala Harris taxing unsold BTC, Amazon adding BTC as a payment method, and countless other social media claims that never occurred. Most forms of modern cryptography, including large internet and financial security services, also rely on SHA-256. If a quantum computer ever cracked this algorithm, trillions of dollars in the global…