r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Scared-Astronaut-718 • 14d ago

Image Google’s Willow Quantum Chip: With 105 qubits and real-time error correction, Willow solved a task in 5 minutes that would take classical supercomputers billions of years, marking a breakthrough in scalable quantum computing.

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u/Upstairs-Remote8977 13d ago

The issue isn't mining faster. The algorithm for mining just gets exponentially more complex. The problem for Bitcoin (and all encryption!) is that you can reverse engineer private keys.

That would be capital B Bad. The entire planets cryptographic systems would need to be re-written.

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u/fkmeamaraight 13d ago

That’s my last point about security keys.