Quantum computing will destroy Bitcoin

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This is way above my IT pay grade but enjoy, from ENTEXT:

Practical ‘Quantum Supremacy’ Demonstration Looms in 2018

‘It isn’t just a faster computer of the kind that we’re used to. It’s a fundamentally new way of harnessing nature to do computations. People ask, ‘Well, is it a thousand times faster? Is it a million times faster?’ It all depends on the application. It could do things in a minute that we don’t know how to do classically in the age of the universe.’ Scott Aaronson, the head of the Quantum Information Center at the University of Texas at Austin. ‘

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.