Dead serious here. A Canadian company has developed and sold, at $10 million a pop, a quantum computer. I think that their first customer was Lockheed Martin. Some univerties have already borrowed cycles to do calculations and solve mathematical problems that have been unsolvable with super computers.
Anyway could this thing be configured to mine BTC?
Should it not, with its ability to preform pretty much infinite calculations per second, be able to mine the rest of BTC in a few days; or at the very least put all other miners out of business?
As a side note the CIA and Jeff Bezos fronted seed money to this company.
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http://www.technologyreview.com/news/429429/the-cia-and-jeff-bezos-bet-on-quantum-computing/First off, No, you couldn't mine the remaining inventory of BTC in a few days. The difficulty changes after every 2016 block so that the next 2016 blocks should take 2 weeks
TMto be found. So if you started this computer right after a difficulty change, you'd get at most 2016 before difficulty would skyrocket so high that your fancy super computer would still take 10 minutes to find a block.
Second... $10 mil? Yeah, right...
Cray's XC30-AC, which goes on sale Tuesday, is Cray's cheapest supercomputer. It has the same software and processors as its big brother, the XC-30, which typically sells for $10 million to $30 million, depending on the configuration. If you were to run a problem on the smaller machine while running the same problem on an equal number of processors in the high-end Cray, you'd get your answer in the same amount of time.
But compare that to the $1 billion-plus price tag on, say, Fujitsu's "K" supercomputer, installed in Japan in 2011, and you've got a screaming deal.
