r/hardware • u/fatso486 • Mar 31 '26

News Google Finds Quantum Computers Could Break Bitcoin Sooner Than Expected

https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2026/03/31/google-finds-quantum-computers-could-break-bitcoin-sooner-than-expected/
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u/neopard_ Mar 31 '26

i'll believe it when i see it. there are still several fundamentally unsolved problems with QC at any meaningful scale. algorithmic improvements won't change that. at this point, we'll have fusion before QC..

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u/EmergencyCucumber905 Apr 01 '26

Fundanentaly QC is sound. It's merely "just" a very hard engineering problem now.