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I'll believe it when I see Satoshi's Bticoins draining off to a new wallet...

• Zaak 9y ago
  That would be fun to watch, but to be overly pedantic about it, it will take a computer with hundreds of qubits to break current public key encryption.
  • tchow 9y ago
    How many hundreds? We are apparently at 72 qubits...sounds to me we are a year or two away from what you're saying
    • obmelvin 9y ago
      As your sibling comment pointed out, we still have a long way to go before we are able to make large amounts of stable and thus truly usable qubits.
  • vtomole 9y ago
    It will take hundreds of fault tolerant qubits. That means it will take potentially millions of physical qubits of relatively high quality. There is a long road ahead from 72 relatively medium quality to millions of relatively high quality qubits.
    • ByThyGrace 9y ago
      As a layman, I've never heard of qubit quality. What is it exactly? How do you determine it? And why does it affect computation?
      • vtomole 9y ago
        Qubit quality is defined by the quantum volume [0]. Errors that occur when gates are applied to qubits need to be below a certain threshold to perform error correction. [0]: https://www.research.ibm.com/ibm-q/resources/quantum-volume.pdf https://www.research.ibm.com/ibm-q/resources/quantum-volume....
    • Zaak 9y ago
      Is quantum error correction really that demanding? I thought it was only a small multiple of the number of qubits, not orders of magnitude more.