{"id":87904,"date":"2025-08-12T21:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T21:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=87904"},"modified":"2025-08-12T21:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T21:00:12","slug":"quantum-computers-no-match-for-bitcoins-math-google-expert-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=87904","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Computers No Match For Bitcoin\u2019s Math, Google Expert Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft has recently rolled out a chip called Majorana 1 that its engineers say could point the way to building quantum computers<\/a> with the scale people once only imagined.<\/p>\n

Google and IBM have also posted progress updates in recent months, and some in crypto called the news alarming.<\/p>\n

But Graham Cooke, a Google veteran-turned blockchain CEO, pushed back on the panic, saying \u201cYour wallet\u2019s math is stronger than the fabric of spacetime itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Majorana 1 And The Million Qubit Claim<\/h2>\n

Microsoft says Majorana 1<\/a> uses a new class of material \u2014 a \u201ctopoconductor\u201d \u2014 and an architecture meant to make qubits more stable and easier to scale toward a million-qubit device.<\/p>\n

The company frames the chip as a step toward practical, fault-tolerant quantum machines that could handle very large problems.<\/p>\n

That kind of scale is what makes some people worry about cryptography, because certain quantum algorithms work very differently from the classical math that protects keys today.<\/p>\n

Microsoft built a 1-million-qubit quantum computer.<\/p>\n

Bitcoin holders are panicking\u2014this could crack crypto encryption.<\/p>\n

But your seed phrase has 340,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 combinations.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s why quantum still can\u2019t touch it: pic.twitter.com\/kiI5oIXej1<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 GC Cooke (@GCcookeHQ) August 11, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n\n

Google\u2019s Willow And IBM Roadmaps<\/h2>\n

Based on reports, Google\u2019s Willow<\/a> chip and IBM\u2019s public roadmap have added fuel to the conversation. Google showed a chip that it says solved a benchmark task in under five minutes that, by their measure, would take a classical supercomputer roughly 10 septillion years.<\/p>\n

IBM has published plans for staged systems \u2014 Starling and later Blue Jay \u2014 to push toward many logical qubits<\/a> and extensive error correction over the next several years.<\/p>\n

Those announcements mean companies are getting closer to solving long-standing engineering problems, but they do not equal an instant ability to undo modern cryptography.<\/p>\n

Why Bitcoin Isn\u2019t Facing A Panic Right Now<\/p>\n

Cryptography experts point out that breaking Bitcoin\u2019s elliptic-curve keys needs not just more physical qubits but stable, error-corrected logical qubits and huge run-times.<\/p>\n

Estimates vary widely, but respected analysis has shown that breaking a 256-bit elliptic curve in a practical time window would require millions or at least many hundreds of thousands of physical qubits once error correction is counted.<\/p>\n

In short: the path from a lab milestone to a machine that can target Bitcoin<\/a> addresses at scale still runs through a lot of hard engineering.<\/p>\n

A 24-word seed phrase?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s 340 septillion trillion MORE combinations than a 12-word phrase.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re approaching 10^77 possibilities \u2013 nearly as many as atoms in the observable universe (10^80):<\/p>\n

\u2014 GC Cooke (@GCcookeHQ) August 11, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

Seed Phrases And Dizzying Numbers<\/p>\n

Based on reports and public comments from practitioners, wallet math is not the whole story but it matters.<\/p>\n

Cooke has stressed how large a 24-word seed phrase<\/a> keyspace is compared with a 12-word phrase, and he used big-picture comparisons \u2014 like saying the universe\u2019s age of 14 billion years and \u201ca trillion trillion\u201d restarts \u2014 to show how vast those numbers are.<\/p>\n

Featured image from Getty Images, chart from TradingView<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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