Google's Willow cuts quantum errors 40-fold, reviving Bitcoin cryptography debate
- —Willow cut magic-state preparation errors roughly 40-fold
- —Fidelity hit 99.99%, but only about 8% of attempts succeeded
- —Legacy P2PK addresses with exposed public keys are most at risk
- —A sustained attack would need ~500,000 reliable magic states per second
Why it matters: A practical quantum attack remains years away, but the community must prepare post-quantum addresses and migrate old P2PK coins.
Source: Bit2Me News
More on this
Security · Sep 24Quantum error-correction progress revives debate over Bitcoin's long-term security
Security · 05:24Quantinuum cuts logical error rate 10x, but bitcoin remains unbroken
Security · Oct 17Google's Willow chip hits 99.99% magic-state fidelity, still a million times short of breaking RSA