‘Wow, it’s a real discovery’: Claude cracks a 25-year NSA number mystery
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coinDesk
October 16, 2026 · 23:39
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Numbers the spy agency handed over in the 1990s, long suspected of hiding a backdoor, turn out to have come from a basic computer program. Bitcoin was never on that list, and its quantum problem hasn’t gone anywhere.
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