I’ve never been a fan or owned any. Looks like I made the right choice.
Google just told the Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies industry it has less time than it thought to prepare for the influence. In a whitepaper published March 31 Google Quantum AI researchers demonstrated that breaking the elliptic curve cryptography protecting bitcoin, ether and most major cryptocurrencies could require fewer than 500,000 physical qubits on a superconducting quantum computer. That’s roughly a 20 times reduction from prior estimates, which pegged the figure in the millions.
I’ll stick with my little yellow friends ![]()