Quantum computer researchers: Bitcoin encryption breakable in a few years

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Quantum-computer-researchers-Bitcoin-encryption-breakable-in-a-few-years-11244911.html

by croes • 4 months ago

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Our_Benefactors• 4 months ago

Who wants to offer me this bet?

This will be forever 5 years away, like commercial fusion

nitwit005• 4 months ago

You'll have to wait "forever" to win that bet.

zippyman55• 4 months ago

No, it will come five years after commercial fusion.

freddydumont• 4 months ago

Can anyone comment on the seemingly impossible transition from quantum computers on the order of ~150 qubits available today to systems with the 500,000 physical qubits required to break classical encryption?

Seems like quite the handwave, especially with a target as close as 2030.

general1465• 4 months ago

If Bitcoin encryption is breakable so soon, then what about RSA? That would be a bigger deal than a bitcoin.

hulitu• 4 months ago

Heise was, some time ago, a reliable paper. Now times seems to have changed.

throwaway270925• 4 months ago

Do you not know how the news works? This is a report about a whitepaper by Googles Quantum AI. If you want to be mad about something, be mad about Google releasing this, not the newspapers reporting the press release.

Quantum computer researchers: Bitcoin encryption breakable in a few years

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