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Why the mind-bending physics of quantum computing is terrifying for bitcoin and crypto
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This week, Google published a paper describing how a quantum computer could theoretically derive a bitcoin private key in 9 minutes, with ramifications that stretch to Ethereum, other tokens, private banking, and potentially everything in the world. Quantum computing is easy to.
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