Chamath’s 8k qubit figure doesn’t seem right to me, way too low. Not really worried about it yet. Lots of Snake Oil vibes. Not an expert on quantum computing though. nostr:note13cmke2ycw6tkmfhyp6pr57kmwq4tqyj5l6vqkn8det926s6q0pxsf62l39
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with at least 2-5 years to go we have time to follow this story 😉
What would this enable though? At will hashing of blocks at any difficulty?
These research I did was based off of how long n qubits would take to break one key pair. Now, whether or not that key was used for a tx, I don’t know. A used key would presumably reduce the time.
Thanks for sharing this. I never know what to make of these claims nostr:npub17u5dneh8qjp43ecfxr6u5e9sjamsmxyuekrg2nlxrrk6nj9rsyrqywt4tp had an interesting talk on this recently and although he made it sound like we have time, we also need to be taking this potential threat seriously. I’m off the opinion it’s solvable, but it will be complicated.