A Quantum Computer Could Crack Bitcoin in Half, Research Finds

Thursday, December 19th 2024, 10:46:23 pm
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Earlier this month, Google announced a brand-new, state-of-the-art quantum chip, dubbed Willow. The 105-qubit chip, double the number than the tech giant's preceding Sycamore chip, completed a computation in under five minutes that would take a modern supercomputer a "mind-boggling," 10 septillion years." The news reignited a debate surrounding the security of the Bitcoin blockchain. Could a future quantum computer really break the cryptocurrency's encryption? As Fortune reports, researchers at
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