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Microsoft’s new state of matter is a quantum threat to bitcoin (protos.com)

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Microsoft’s quantum chip engineers just discovered a brand new state of matter, and Bitcoin’s security could get lost in the flux. The post Microsoft’s new state of matter is a quantum threat to bitcoin appeared first on Protos.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, it'll still take a while, this chip from MS only has 8 qubits on it.

And the largest number ever factored by a quantum computer is... 21, and that record was set 13 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The number 21? Or 21 digits?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

The number 21.