On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM Brent Allsop <[email protected]> wrote:
*> Interesting. **So bitcoin doesn't need to worry too much about that for > now. And even when/if it does need to start worrying about it, as it > pointed out, solving cryptography is much easier than the fact that > "quantum computing development faces significant technical challenges in > error correction and maintaining quantum coherence at scale."* > *It's not certain but Bitcoin might run into trouble well before 2033. At the moment IBM seems to be leading in the race to build a Quantum Computer and, because of the technology it's using, its rate of progress is relatively easy to predict, but that's not true for one of IBM's competitors. Microsoft is using a technology that is radically different from IBM's, they're trying to use non-Abelian Majorana Fermions to make a Topological Quantum Computer. Microsoft made a risky bet about 10 years ago and I admire their guts, their unusual approach may prove to be impractical, but if it's workable then they would be able to make progress toward a Quantum Computer far faster than IBM, or anybody else.* *It takes time so If the Bitcoin people had been smart and cautious they would have changed their cryptography to something more secure several years ago, but they haven't even started.* * John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* 5g2 > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3%2BHa0Tsz9o9P1qi7ZvfQ%3DW1YggZLtuN2T3FrvwQ_y8iQ%40mail.gmail.com.
