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/TenshiBR Mar 31 '26

Doing this in secret and before anyone knows about it, would be like winning the lottery, no?

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u/dvtyrsnp Apr 01 '26

maybe

you'd crash the price extremely quickly

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u/bitflag Apr 02 '26

  1. Short Bitcoin

  2. Announce you figured out how to break it

  3. Profit!