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Bitcoin => Bitcoin Discussion => Topic started by: bitcoinBull on March 22, 2011, 10:10:00 AM



Title: qubitcoin - quantum bitcoin
Post by: bitcoinBull on March 22, 2011, 10:10:00 AM
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:  http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3008.msg71589#msg71589