A soul-searching question: The public key for the 1.1 million $BTC in Satoshi Nakamoto’s wallet is sitting on the blockchain forever—and yesterday, Google published a paper in *Science* saying it cut errors in quantum chip magic-state preparation by 40x. If a quantum computer really does figure out the private key one day, will old Satoshi be the first to get cleaned out?
Don’t panic—CoinDesk also says real-world tests are still a million times away from breaking encryption, and the 500,000-physical-qubit threshold is still a long way off.
Pick one in the comments: A) Quantum zero-day is only a matter of time—better get out now / B) It’s all needless worry; I’m even willing to hold $ETH
#QuantumComputing
Don’t panic—CoinDesk also says real-world tests are still a million times away from breaking encryption, and the 500,000-physical-qubit threshold is still a long way off.
Pick one in the comments: A) Quantum zero-day is only a matter of time—better get out now / B) It’s all needless worry; I’m even willing to hold $ETH
#QuantumComputing