Punjab, April 24 -- Researcher breaks 15-bit ECC key on publicly accessible quantum hardware in a 512x jump from the previous public demonstration.NEW YORK, April 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -Project Eleven today awarded the Q-Day Prize, a one Bitcoinbounty, to Giancarlo Lelli for breaking a 15-bit elliptic curve key on a publicly accessible quantum computer. The result is the largest public demonstration to date of the attack class that threatens Bitcoin, Ethereum, and over $2.5 trillion in ECC-secured digital assets. "The resource requirements for this type of attack keep dropping, and the barrier to running it in practice is dropping with them," said Alex Pruden, CEO of Project Eleven. "The winning submission came from an independent researche...