🛸 CASE FILE #262
Google Just Took a Major Step Toward Bitcoin's Q-DAY.
Google says its Willow quantum chip achieved 40X fewer errors and 99.99% accuracy using a technique called "magic state cultivation."
The same technique is part of Google's research into breaking modern encryption with fewer than one million physical qubits.
Q-Day is the point when quantum computers become powerful enough to threaten the cryptography protecting Bitcoin wallets.
Google still needs to prove the technique works at a much larger scale.
Bitcoin hasn't been broken. But the race between quantum computing and crypto security is accelerating.
Google Just Took a Major Step Toward Bitcoin's Q-DAY.
Google says its Willow quantum chip achieved 40X fewer errors and 99.99% accuracy using a technique called "magic state cultivation."
The same technique is part of Google's research into breaking modern encryption with fewer than one million physical qubits.
Q-Day is the point when quantum computers become powerful enough to threaten the cryptography protecting Bitcoin wallets.
Google still needs to prove the technique works at a much larger scale.
Bitcoin hasn't been broken. But the race between quantum computing and crypto security is accelerating.