What would happen to Bitcoin if Discrete Log were broken?

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Channel: Off Chain with Jimmy Song · 2018 · Science & Technology

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Discrete Log is one of those assumptions that Bitcoin rests on and there's at least one known vulnerability using Quantum Computing using Shor's Algorithm. How would this breaking affect Bitcoin?

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