Quantum computers are at the gates of blockchain city! A paper from Google reveals hidden crises in the crypto world
Google quantum researcher Craig Gidney's latest study is jaw-dropping— the quantum resource requirement to crack a Bitcoin wallet has dropped by 20 times! The 2048-bit RSA encryption (similar to Bitcoin's encryption algorithm), which originally required 20 million quantum bits to crack, now only needs less than 1 million noisy quantum bits, and can be brute-forced in a week! Although the current most powerful IBM quantum machine has only 1121 quantum bits, they plan to achieve 100,000 by 2033, and Quantinuum has even claimed they will achieve full fault tolerance by 2029.
This has scared Solana into developing quantum vaults overnight, with Vitalik Buterin directly proposing a hard fork for survival if necessary. Furthermore, the hardcore organization Project 11 has offered a reward of $85,000 just to see who can use a quantum machine to crack a simplified version of Bitcoin with a 25-bit key (friendly reminder: real Bitcoin is 256 bits). The U.S. government originally planned to phase out weak systems by 2030, but Google’s recent moves might trigger an arms race ahead of schedule!
Brothers, this news can't be treated as dessert after a meal! The last time I heard about quantum threats, I thought it was science fiction. Now, breakthroughs in algorithm optimization and error correction technology have accelerated the countdown to death by 20 times. Think back to when Monero bravely stood against ASIC miners; I bet 50 cents that the ETH 2.0 upgrade will definitely fortify against quantum modules!
Now the question arises— if quantum computers can really crack Bitcoin, will you choose to believe in Satoshi Nakamoto's mathematical magic, or go all in on anti-quantum concept coins? Leave a prediction in the comments, and if you want to quickly get up to speed on the information gap, click on my profile and follow me for first-hand information and in-depth analysis!
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