Google’s new research potentially puts the entire bitcoin supply – and the very foundation of digital trust – at risk, explains Pruden. A whitepaper published yesterday by Google Quantum AI shows that a fast-clock quantum computer (with similar architecture to their existing Willow chip) could derive a private key from an exposed public key in approximately nine minutes. Bitcoin settles a block every 10 minutes. That is, on average, a one-minute margin between the system working and an adversar…
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