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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Can the Most Powerful Computer on Earth Hack Bitcoin?
by
cybersofts
on 08/08/2017, 23:59:15 UTC
Let me avoid the technical aspects to make things easy for all readers.

So someone said that America's NSA has this great computer(quantum computer) that could easily hack Bitcoin private keys. I really doubt his claim but I know for sure that certain computers  like the most powerful Super Computers are within the reach of some of this Intelligence organizations.
Do you think such computers can crack any security codes put in place to make Bitcoin very secure?

First off, before we get any further. quantum computing is nothing but huge computational potential perceived by mathematicians and computer scientists. So, people read papers and think quantum computing may one day decyper every encrypted documents which is wrong. quantum computing is a field of learning and building very advanced and powerful computers that are not yet fully developed. It may take 15-20 years or more before these computers are ready. and even when they are ready they can't decrypt every transaction on Blockchain network. Smiley