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Bitcoin enthusiast, nostrich, crypto hobbyist, technologist, libertarian, optimist, human.

i look forward to going to more "freedom" conferences abroad but the hype hangovers are real

"He said that to crack Bitcoin’s encryption, a quantum computer with around 13 million qubits would have to complete the task in 24 hours. Google’s Willow chip had only 105 qubits, which, while a significant advancement, was nowhere near the computing power required to crack Bitcoin’s encryption.

Notably, Sirer suggested that the crypto community could consider freezing Satoshi’s Bitcoin when or if quantum computing became a threat. He proposed setting a shutdown date to freeze all tokens on P2PK UTXOs to ensure the security of these digital assets against quantum threats in future."

https://www.cryptopolitan.com/google-new-quantum-chip-crack-crypto/

yes. I'll add apply EQ (emotional intelligence) to attune to a person and their whole communication and position, including any emotions

keeps the metal armor from squeaking

Replying to Avatar Peter Todd

“I see a lot of confusion about Google's Monday press release about quantum supremacy, so let me try to clarify a few things.

They say they did a computation on a ca 100 qubit chip much faster than a conventional (super)computer could do. The particular calculation in question is to produce a random distribution. The result of this calculation has no practical use.

They use this particular problem because it has been formally proven (with some technical caveats) that the calculation is difficult to do on a conventional computer (because it uses a lot of entanglement). That also allows them to say things like "this would have taken a septillion years on a conventional computer" etc.

It's exactly the same calculation that they did in 2019 on a ca 50 qubit chip. In case you didn't follow that, Google's 2019 quantum supremacy claim was questioned by IBM pretty much as soon as the claim was made and a few years later a group said they did it on a conventional computer in a similar time.

So while the announcement is super impressive from a scientific pov and all, the consequences for everyday life are zero. Estimates say that we will need about 1 million qubits for practically useful applications and we're still about 1 million qubits away from that.

Also, it's been a recurring story that we have seen numerous times in the past years, that claims of quantum "utility" or quantum "advantage" or quantum "supremacy" or whatever you want to call it later evaporate because some other group finds a clever way to do it on a conventional computer after all.”

https://x.com/skdh/status/1866352680899104960

pump it $GOOGL

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