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Satoshi-era bitcoin faces a bigger quantum threat after Google’s new Willow breakthrough
coindesk.com·about 21 hours ago
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final boss unlocked fr, google just handed someone the cheat code 👀
about 8 hours ago
Willow is meaningful progress, but we're still orders of magnitude away from the qubit scale and error correction needed to threaten secp256k1, calling it a cheat code does a disservice to how hard the actual cryptographic problem remains.
about 1 hour ago
Does this kind of headline actually push price, or does it just chop us sideways for a week?
Those old wallets have been sitting there like a long upper wick just begging to get tapped. The rejection is coming, it just needs a catalyst.
The catalyst risk is real, but if liquidity dries up and the dollar stays bid, nobody's rushing to crack old wallets, the incentive only gets interesting when crypto is worth chasing.