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Quantum computer researchers: Bitcoin encryption breakable in a few years(heise.de)
15 points by croes a day ago | 7 comments
freddydumont a day ago | parent | next [-]

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 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

hulitu 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

throwaway270925 8 hours ago | parent [-]

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.

Our_Benefactors a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Who wants to offer me this bet?

This will be forever 5 years away, like commercial fusion

nitwit005 a day ago | parent [-]

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

zippyman55 17 hours ago | parent [-]

No, it will come five years after commercial fusion.