Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools
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Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools
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Re: Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools
#2Related:
Discussion on the Google one,
Safeguarding cryptocurrency by disclosing quantum vulnerabilities responsibly
Re: Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools
#3Here's hoping that my stock for D-Wave ends up being worth something.
Quantum computing seems super cool, but I've been a little skeptical of it actually ever yielding anything useful. I would love to be wrong, it seems neat, and I have read through a few books on the subject and played with simulators, so I'm not completely talking out of my ass here, but quantum as a whole has kind of felt like vaporware to me.
As I said, I have stock in D-Wave, obviously it would be in my best interest for quantum to end up as cool as it seems.
Re: Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools
#4Here's hoping that my stock for D-Wave ends up being worth something. Quantum computing seems super cool, but I've been a little skeptical of it actually ever yielding anything useful. I would love to be wrong, it seems neat, and I have read through a few books on the subject and played with simulators, so I'm not completely talking out of my ass here, but quantum as a whole has kind of felt like vaporware to me. As…
You can rent Quantum computing time from IBM cloud today:
https://www.ibm.com/quantum/products
https://quantum.cloud.ibm.com/docs/en/guides/plans-overview
I have NOT used it, but the idea is interesting.
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#5Can quantum computing do even basic math yet? I think this was the holdup. Or perhaps I'm missing the point.
Re: Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools
#6One thing I find rather amazing about all of this is the degree to which the Bitcoin community has tried, for years, to claim that quantum computers will be another other than a complete break.
Sure, it takes a pretty nice quantum computer or a pretty good algorithm or a degree of malice on the part of miners to break pay-to-script-hash if your wallet has the right properties, but that seems like a pretty weak excuse for the fact that the entire scheme is broken, completely, by QC.
Does there even exist a credible post-quantum proof protocol that could be used to “rescue” P2SH wallets?
Re: Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools
#7Maybe it's a good time to start promoting my 5 year old, lightweight, hand-crafted, battle-tested, quantum-resistant blockchain: https://capitalisk.com/
It's about 5000 lines of custom code. Crypto signature library written from scratch.
Re: Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools
#8Can quantum computing do even basic math yet? I think this was the holdup. Or perhaps I'm missing the point.
It doesn't do basic math ... just the hard one :)
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#9So does BTC need to hard fork? Good luck getting to a consensus again ...
Re: Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools
#10Maybe it's a good time to start promoting my 5 year old, lightweight, hand-crafted, battle-tested, quantum-resistant blockchain: https://capitalisk.com/ It's about 5000 lines of custom code. Crypto signature library written from scratch.
> Crypto signature library written from scratch.
That's a sentence every white hat cryptography enthusiast loves to hear lol.