{"id":690891,"date":"2025-09-19T15:00:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-el-salvador-split-678m-in-bitcoin-to-guard-against-a-quantum-threat-that-isnt-here-yet\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T15:00:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T12:00:49","slug":"why-el-salvador-split-678m-in-bitcoin-to-guard-against-a-quantum-threat-that-isnt-here-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-el-salvador-split-678m-in-bitcoin-to-guard-against-a-quantum-threat-that-isnt-here-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Why El Salvador split $678M in Bitcoin to guard against a quantum threat that isn\u2019t here yet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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To guard against a distant quantum risk, El Salvador moved 6,000 BTC into 14 wallets, a move hailed as prudent custody by some and theatrics by others.<\/p>\n

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The government redistributed roughly 6,274 BTC (around $678 million at publication time) from one address into 14 fresh addresses, each capp<\/a>ed at 500 BTC, as a precautionary security measure.<\/em><\/p>\n

Until late August 2025, El Salvador\u2019s national Bitcoin reserve sat in a single address. That\u2019s a straightforward setup but a risky one: If a vulnerability is ever discovered, the entire stash could be exposed.<\/p>\n

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To guard against a distant quantum risk, El Salvador moved 6,000 BTC into 14 wallets, a move hailed as prudent custody by some and theatrics by others. The government redistributed roughly 6,274 BTC (around $678 million at publication time) from one address into 14 fresh addresses, each capped at 500 BTC, as a precautionary security…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":690892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=90,width=1200\/https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/storage\/uploads\/view\/70fbdaa1e0f6ec3c95924a93fadb05a7.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}