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.
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.
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.
The number 21? Or 21 digits?
The number 21.