⚡️🧮 NEW - According to Google researchers, it could be 20 times easier than expected for quantum computers to break #Bitcoin.

According to them, decrypting RSA, the technology that secures crypto wallets, requires far fewer quantum resources than previously thought.

Craig Gidney, researcher at Google Quantum:

"I estimate that a 2048-bit RSA integer could be accounted for in less than a week by a quantum computer with less than a million noisy qubits".

"This is a 20-fold decrease in the number of qubits compared to our previous estimate."

To put this into context, IBM's Condor (the most powerful quantum computer to date) achieves 1,121 qubits, while Google's Sycamore operates with 53.

IBM is planning a 100,000-qubit quantum computer by 2033, in partnership with the University of Tokyo and the University of Chicago.

This is still a long way from the 1 million qubits mentioned.