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Topic: qubitcoin - quantum bitcoin (Read 1354 times)

legendary
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rippleFanatic
March 22, 2011, 05:10:00 AM
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Quantum computing device hints at powerful future
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12811199

We're gonna need a qubitcoin.

EDIT: Nevermind.  we'll just need to increase the key size.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography

EDIT2:  NM2.  The ECDSA public key crypto in bitoin is vulberable.  See discussion here:  https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.71589
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