On Sun, Nov 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >
Like I still had bitcoin to sell :-( :-( I had thousands! I sold them at less than $10/btc long ago. > John K Clark > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "extropolis" 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/extropolis/CAJPayv2%3Dfkx2f5W1HeSYDb7HBZmPWqAeYpM_diZRmR%3DzTpDRkA%40mail.gmail.com. -- 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/CAKTCJyftg1eZW8xHa%2BSBLAcKBLCiRO0V5YW9m_AS4Q39GDnVpg%40mail.gmail.com.
