Enough of the quantum slop already. We need actual quantum computing engineers or physicists to chime in to the quantum debates in Bitcoin.
While tens of thousands of real physicists work on quantum ...
PhD physical scientist here -- not in the quantum area, but with some familiarity.
Best take I've heard based on my own "partially informed" understanding of both fields is -- (a) it's a concern but (b) it's not an imminent threat.
This field isn't anything like modern semiconductors where you have Moore's law, etc. A variety of different approaches to the actual physical platforms of QC are still getting investment, which says to me that the field hasn't even settled on a single "reference hardware" implementation the same way that semiconductors have...
Best take I've heard based on my own "partially informed" understanding of both fields is -- (a) it's a concern but (b) it's not an imminent threat.
This field isn't anything like modern semiconductors where you have Moore's law, etc. A variety of different approaches to the actual physical platforms of QC are still getting investment, which says to me that the field hasn't even settled on a single "reference hardware" implementation the same way that semiconductors have...