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[-] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 11 months ago

QC would be completely devastating to bitcoin. Anyone with a sufficient QC could break any block of the bitcoin chain they want, essentially giving all the bitcoins to themselves. There are other cryptocurrencies that are quantum-resistant, but bitcoin itself would be done.

[-] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I would assume in the face of that the bitcoin network would have to change its consensus to include quantum resistance. I think this is possible but not sure

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