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Bitcoin and quantum computers
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niklas
on 12/12/2012, 20:15:29 UTC
Hi everyone,

does anyone have a clue about what would happen to bitcoin if someone figured how to build a working and usable quantum computer? I do not now much about these machines but a colleague of mine who is a physicist told me that every standard encryption encryption - which is used quite a lot in bitcoin, right? - could be cracked in no time.

Would this be the end of bitcoin?

Niklas