Quantum computer expert Scott Aaronson has always been a vocal critic of the excessive hype surrounding his subject, but just a few days ago he wrote this:
*"I now think it’s a live possibility that we’ll have a fault-tolerant quantum computer running Shor’s algorithm before the next US presidential election. And I say that not only because of the possibility of the next US presidential election getting cancelled, or preempted by runaway superintelligence!"* When we have a quantum computer big enough to run Shor's algorithm, bitcoin becomes worthless. Aaronson then says this: *"The two biggest known application areas for QC remain (a) quantum simulation and (b) the breaking of public-key cryptography, just as they were thirty years ago."* *Quantum Computing, too much to handle* <https://scottaaronson.blog/> John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2%3Dfkx2f5W1HeSYDb7HBZmPWqAeYpM_diZRmR%3DzTpDRkA%40mail.gmail.com.
