Nooooooo!

When we get sufficiently advanced quantum computers, past transactions done on privacy coins can become revealed. If you want more permanent privacy, use Bitcoin privately with Lightning or ECash. You can't decrypt what you can't see.

GM

GM

::want::

GM and Merry Christmas! Hope you got some fun gifts from Santa.

YES!

Knowledge creation is fundamentally unpredictable. You would have to already have the knowledge in order to be able to say when it would be created, which of course is a contradiction. Two things make discussing current work on quantum computers even worse. 1. Startups in order to raise money over-hype and over-promise. 2. Instead of getting individual fully functional qubits to work, there is this idea of getting partially functional qubits, and then attempt to do error correction. So you hear about a company that builds a quantum computer with X qubits, but none of the qubits reliably function. Imagine knowing you want to run code on a classical computer, but all the transistors/bits functioned 50% of the time. How many would you need to run your code??? It isn't clear to me that this approach will even work.

Take care and keep us updated if you can.

GM

GM