[BREAKING] Quantum Computer Hits. BFL, bASIC etc all dead. End of BTC?

MysteryMiner

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SubAbsolute Zero Quantum devices might break Bitcoin!!! Oh nooooooo.

Or it can possibly take crypto to new level that was unachievable with classical digital computers. Like Bitcoin was enabled by fast network connections and CPUs making transaction processing a breeze instead of freeze.

Anyway we are possibly decades before quantum computers are fully functional. Meanwhile the biggest threat to Bitcoin are ZOG busting Bitcoin users and sending to SEMEN camps. No quantum computers needed for this to happen.

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Just to clarify an important point: People are playing with words when they use "quantum" to describe their new chips. It's not that hard to build a processor using 128 atoms to perform useful calculations.

A "real" quantum computer requires every qubit in the system to be entangled with all of the other qubits. It is from this entanglement property that quantum computers experience a significant speed-up compared to classical computers. Without entanglement, you're left with a computer that plays in the same ball park as your ipad. Creating and maintaining this entanglement is highly unstable. Systems tend to break down very quickly as you add qubits. It is even debated whether entanglement is physically possible to maintain for any significant number of qubits.

To date, I believe we have only been able to factor 3x5=15 with 7 qubits and more recently 11x13=143 on 4 qubits. However, for the second result, it is debated whether entanglement actually occurred.

So don't worry about these silly claim Wink

Hope this clarifies it a bit!

Edit: Okay it's pretty clear everyone thinks this is fake ! I'll leave my post for info

BurtW

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Here is a twist. From:

http://www.dailytech.com/Researchers+Change+the+Laws+of+Physics+With+SubAbsolute+Zero+Quantum+Gas/article29557.htm

SubAbsolute Zero Quantum devices might break Bitcoin!!! Oh nooooooo.

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Negative [absolute] temperature materials could be a boon to both theoretical particle physics and quantum computing. But much work needs to be done to understand their bizarre new spin on physics.

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BREAKING NEWS: I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

How much is this bridge of yours and do you accept tenebrix?

I LOL'd

It was done already: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eifel_Tower#Subsequent_events

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The con artist Victor Lustig "sold" the Eifel tower for scrap metal on two separate, but related occasions.

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Integrated quantum computer system with 128 qubit chipset AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER NOW. Deliveries slated to begin early January.

Butterfly Labs scam taken to the next level! Time to preorder!

c4n10

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Quote from: ElectricMucus on January 06, 2013, 09:41:17 PM

Quote from: HDSolar on January 06, 2013, 09:33:41 PM

Sweet another company I can pre-order with. I wounder if they take PayPal Grin

Well at least they demonstrated something with a prototype.

Btw: Anybody remember Steorn?
You know these irish overunity magnetic motor guys from 2006. Grin

LOL... Steorn...

c4n10

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It's going to be at least a few years before quantum computers are ready to compete with standard computers, the first quantum computers won't be able to do much more than work a single algorithm. Here's an interesting article that gives a rough idea of where quantum computers are at right now:

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/12/new-form-of-quantum-computation-.html

Also, if you go to the page you linked and you click on their quantum computer to get more details, you can get a rough idea of the cost of this thing by sentences such as "Our current superconducting 128-qubit processor chip is housed inside a cryogenics system within a 10 square meter shielded room."

I really don't see this being a threat to bitcoin any time in the near future...

ElectricMucus

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Quote from: HDSolar on January 06, 2013, 09:33:41 PM

Sweet another company I can pre-order with. I wounder if they take PayPal Grin

Well at least they demonstrated something with a prototype.

Btw: Anybody remember Steorn?
You know these irish overunity magnetic motor guys from 2006. Grin

HDSolar

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Sweet another company I can pre-order with. I wounder if they take PayPal Grin

jcpham

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Your Argument is Irrelephant

Quote from: MPOE-PR on January 03, 2013, 03:39:30 AM

Quote from: jcpham on January 02, 2013, 12:23:53 PM

troll, troll, troll your boat...

hi burtw!
hi MPOE-PR (why do you type so many words, my kitchen doesn't have forums)
hi smoothie!

...actually there are some smart people "threading it up" here.

Urmom called. Wants kitchen back.

Also, further breaking news: BFL will deliver ASICs no later than January, 2014.

All we have to eat is potatoes! I'm starving and I'm so cold. Keep me warm.

MPOE-PR

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Quote from: jcpham on January 02, 2013, 12:23:53 PM

troll, troll, troll your boat...

hi burtw!
hi MPOE-PR (why do you type so many words, my kitchen doesn't have forums)
hi smoothie!

...actually there are some smart people "threading it up" here.

Urmom called. Wants kitchen back.

Also, further breaking news: BFL will deliver ASICs no later than January, 2014.

ImNotHerb

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An impressive sounding link whose details leave much to be desired:

"Even though the quantum device follows a quantum annealing protocol, the odds of measuring the ground state are not necessarily high. For example, in the 81 qubit experiment, only 13 out of 10,000 measurements yielded the desired solution."
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"...the cases presented here still can be solved on a classical computer by exact enumeration (the six-amino-acid problem has only 40 possible configurations)..."

greyhawk

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Quote from: Phinnaeus Gage on January 02, 2013, 05:08:52 PM

And to think I had you pegged as a light reader. My bad!

I am. Tried it once without light. Didn't work out all that well.

Phinnaeus Gage

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Quote from: ImNotHerb on January 02, 2013, 04:47:12 PM

Quote from: MPOE-PR on December 20, 2012, 10:45:54 AM

Integrated quantum computer system with 128 qubit chipset AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER NOW. Deliveries slated to begin early January. No concerns of Chinese New Year.

Link: http://www.dwavesys.com/en/dw_homepage.html

Sorry everyone. The jig, it is up.

Quantum computers are one of those technologies like fusion power that is perpetually "only 10 or 20 years away". I would bet every BTC I have that this is a scam to cash in on the hype surrounding quantum computers as opposed to whatever is inside their "shielded black box" is capable of doing. A good tell is that they're searching for "investors" (rubes) rather than publishing in physics journals.

Uhuh.... "Nature" not good enough now?

http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/120813/srep00571/full/srep00571.html

This was done using your supposed "scam" machine.

And to think I had you pegged as a light reader. My bad!

FWIW, the site has some cool images:

wachtwoord

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Cool thanks for sharing!

greyhawk

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Quote from: ImNotHerb on January 02, 2013, 04:47:12 PM

Quote from: MPOE-PR on December 20, 2012, 10:45:54 AM

Integrated quantum computer system with 128 qubit chipset AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER NOW. Deliveries slated to begin early January. No concerns of Chinese New Year.

Link: http://www.dwavesys.com/en/dw_homepage.html

Sorry everyone. The jig, it is up.

Quantum computers are one of those technologies like fusion power that is perpetually "only 10 or 20 years away". I would bet every BTC I have that this is a scam to cash in on the hype surrounding quantum computers as opposed to whatever is inside their "shielded black box" is capable of doing. A good tell is that they're searching for "investors" (rubes) rather than publishing in physics journals.

Uhuh.... "Nature" not good enough now?

http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/120813/srep00571/full/srep00571.html

This was done using your supposed "scam" machine.

ImNotHerb

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Quote from: MPOE-PR on December 20, 2012, 10:45:54 AM

Integrated quantum computer system with 128 qubit chipset AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER NOW. Deliveries slated to begin early January. No concerns of Chinese New Year.

Link: http://www.dwavesys.com/en/dw_homepage.html

Sorry everyone. The jig, it is up.

Quantum computers are one of those technologies like fusion power that is perpetually "only 10 or 20 years away". I would bet every BTC I have that this is a scam to cash in on the hype surrounding quantum computers as opposed to whatever is inside their "shielded black box" is capable of doing. A good tell is that they're searching for "investors" (rubes) rather than publishing in physics journals.

jcpham

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Your Argument is Irrelephant

troll, troll, troll your boat...

hi burtw!
hi MPOE-PR (why do you type so many words, my kitchen doesn't have forums)
hi smoothie!

...actually there are some smart people "threading it up" here.

greyhawk

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Maybe he'll pay them back?

BurtW

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Quote from: smoothie on December 30, 2012, 03:05:47 AM

Quote from: BurtW on December 20, 2012, 12:51:33 PM

Dang, I wish I had read the above response before I panicked and dumped all my BTC because MPOE-PR told me Bitcoin was broken.

What ever happened to that 10,000 BTC you left with Pirate because you believed he would pay? LOL Grin

I lost it. Any other stupid questions?

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