đš BREAKING NEWS: Satoshi-era bitcoin faces a bigger quantum threat after Googleâs new Willow breakthrough
Google says its Willow quantum chip has cut errors about 40-fold when preparing special states used in quantum calculations, tackling a costly step toward building machines powerful enough to crack bitcoin wallets.
The result,published inSciencethis week, deals with something that rarely comes up in the bitcoin quantum debate â which usually focuses on how big a machine an attacker would need while underplayinghow muchof that machine would be occupied getting ready to calculate.
A bitcoin wallet uses a secret key to approve payments and a matching public key that lets the network check those approvals. Spending typically reveals the public key, while some payment types expose it from the start.
Working backward from it to the secret is supposed to take an impractical amount of computing, which makes it practically impossible to reverse-engineer crypto wallets.
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Google says its Willow quantum chip has cut errors about 40-fold when preparing special states used in quantum calculations, tackling a costly step toward building machines powerful enough to crack bitcoin wallets.
The result,published inSciencethis week, deals with something that rarely comes up in the bitcoin quantum debate â which usually focuses on how big a machine an attacker would need while underplayinghow muchof that machine would be occupied getting ready to calculate.
A bitcoin wallet uses a secret key to approve payments and a matching public key that lets the network check those approvals. Spending typically reveals the public key, while some payment types expose it from the start.
Working backward from it to the secret is supposed to take an impractical amount of computing, which makes it practically impossible to reverse-engineer crypto wallets.
đ [Äá»c toĂ n bá» bĂ i viáșżt táșĄi báșŁn gá»c](https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/10/16/satoshi-era-bitcoin-faces-a-bigger-quantum-threat-after-google-s-new-willow-breakthrough)
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