GOOGLE ANNOUNCES MAJOR QUANTUM COMPUTING BREAKTHROUGH WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR BITCOIN SECURITY Google Quantum AI researchers have achieved 99.99% logical fidelity in producing “magic states” on the company’s 105-qubit Willow processor, reducing errors by 40x. The breakthrough, published in Science, addresses one of the biggest engineering bottlenecks preventing quantum computers from scaling to the point where they could threaten Bitcoin’s cryptography. Earlier this year, Google published research suggesting that breaking Bitcoin’s cryptography could require fewer than 500,000 physical qubits, roughly 20x fewer than previous estimates. That was an algorithmic breakthrough, demonstrating how an attack could theoretically be performed with fewer resources. Today’s announcement represents a complementary hardware breakthrough, demonstrating progress toward making the necessary quantum operations reliable and less resource-intensive. While this does not mean Bitcoin’s cryptography can be broken today, it represents another significant step toward cryptographically relevant quantum computers. The timeline for a potential quantum threat to Bitcoin remains uncertain, but the case for accelerating Bitcoin’s transition toward quantum-resistant cryptography continues to strengthen.

Hey, everybody, who bought into the bitcoin ETF, how many times have you guys been hacked?

Probably just a coincidence. 👀 And remember, the answer might not be the answer.

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people who stored their btc on coldcard got drained because of entropy. the seed generation was reproducible, anyone could recompute their keys. so i went through every other hardware wallet to see how they make your seed, and whether the same thing can happen again. @Trezor: mixes the device's randomness with randomness from your computer, and the device has to prove it used both. even if its chip is fully broken, you're still fine. the best design here by far. @BitBoxSwiss: 5 separate sources of randomness combined. one bad source can't sink you. open source, reproducible builds, dice supported. @FoundationHQ: built their own randomness circuit out of plain resistors and capacitors, open source, on top of two other sources. no black-box chip to trust. supports dice. @KeystoneWallet: 2 secure chips from 2 different manufacturers, combined. also lets you roll 99 dice and publishes how to check the result yourself. @Blockstream: jade pulls from 7 things: radio noise, cpu counters, battery, temperature, camera, your input, the app. very hard to break all of them. @SeedSigner: your dice are the only source. no chip to trust at all. and they ship a guide teaching you to verify their own math. weakest hardware, strongest proof. @OneKey: secure element plus mcu combined on device, open source firmware. solid, but you can't add your own randomness. @Ledger: one certified chip (AIS-31, EAL5+). good randomness. but it's a single source, closed source, and you cannot verify any of it. you're trusting them completely. @Tangem: key is born inside the chip and never comes out. audited by three firms. same trade: strong, and impossible for you to check by design. @ngrave_official: mixes chip randomness with your fingerprint and room light. clever. but the "EAL7" badge covers one software component, not the whole device. @ELLIPAL: single certified chip, no software fallback, fails closed instead of guessing. closed source, so take it on faith. @SafePal: 2 chips mixed. they've never published the details. @COLDCARDwallet: patched now, and dice on coldcard were always verifiable. but every seed made between 2021 and 2026 is permanently burned. one source = ledger, tangem, ellipal. that one source fails, everything fails. their answer is to make it excellent and certified. that's exactly the bet coldcard lost. many sources = trezor, bitbox, passport, jade, keystone. one broken source never reaches your key. and every one of these claims 128 or 256 bits. coldcard did too. certification doesn't help either, coldcard's chip was fine, the code just stopped calling it. the only thing that saves you is being able to check. roll your own dice. verify the words yourself.

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