I don't think it will work like that. As I repeated ad nauseam above, this is an adiabatic quantum computer, not gate quantum computer. Here is a quote: >

I don't think it will work like that. As I repeated ad nauseam above, this is an adiabatic quantum computer, not gate quantum computer. Here is a quote: > Computers using D-Wave's devices will always > differ from gate-based quantum computers in one key way: > D-Wave's devices do not lead to universal computers that > can be programmed with any algorithm, as an ordinary computer can. > Instead, says D-Wave's Colin Williams, their chips focus > on solving a particular class of optimisation problems. > "That's such an important class that commercially it is > a much better strategy than trying to make a universal machine." Perhaps the problem of bitcoins can be reduced to hill/valley optimization, but I don't think that's how bitcoin works.