Quantum ASIC bitcoin mining?

[vitalemontea]

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23519-commercial-quantum-computer-leaves-pc-in-the-dust.html

This company, D-Wave apparently makes custom quantum processors for specific tasks. Why not bitcoin mining?
Discuss, thanks.

[AzureEngineer]

No one in Bitcoin as of today has the capital necessary to contract that kind of hardware.

[b!z]

Do your research and you will see these are useless for btc mining.

[vitalemontea]

Do your research and you will see these are useless for btc mining.

Elaborate please

[skull88]

It's not a real quantum computer, if it was a real one, we (and all the banks) would probably have a big problem. Mining would be pretty useless because Bitcoin would be death, too less time to make it quantum proof.

[wachtwoord]

Quantum computers exist but the largest factorization to date has been 15=3x5 (with smaller than 50% accuracy  ). Not ready to leave the lab just yet

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-08/quantum-processor-calculates-15-3x5-about-half-time

[Phinnaeus Gage]

Quantum computers exist but the largest factorization to date has been 15=3x5 (with smaller than 50% accuracy  ). Not ready to leave the lab just yet

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-08/quantum-processor-calculates-15-3x5-about-half-time

So, what you're saying is that they're at the pre-order stage, only accepting investments from cocksuckers.