Quantum Hashing

[Pierce]

I just ordered some parts to build my own mining rig but there is always a new technology on the horizon. I'm not the most technically inclined but was wondering if something such as the D Wave Onehttp://www.dwavesys.com/en/products-services.html would be a viable option for mining?

[zxcvbn]

Unless you have a couple hundred thousand dollars laying around and have lots of programming experience, that isn't going to help you.

[matteumayo]

I just ordered some parts to build my own mining rig but there is always a new technology on the horizon. I'm not the most technically inclined but was wondering if something such as the D Wave Onehttp://www.dwavesys.com/en/products-services.html would be a viable option for mining?

That sounds amazing!

You wouldn't make any BTC with it though I'd imagine.

[benjamindees]

Heh, I think this requires a bit more than a few thousand dollars and some programming experience.

128 qubits is a bit beyond what is believably feasible.  It sounds like there is some salesmanship going on here.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/loser-dwave-does-not-quantum-compute

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/04/03/1613206/New-Quantum-Record-14-Entangled-Bits

[commlinx]

Apart from the qubit count being a bit of a quantum leap I'm pretty sure I read that quantum computers can only partly solve SHA hashes. So it does reduce the strength, but the bit count could just be increased to mitigate when/if it becomes plausible.

[xenon481]

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/05/controversial-computer-is-at-lea.html?ref=ra