Google’s Quantum Computer Still Far From Useful, Says Vitalik Buterin

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is not at all impressed by the perceived threat Bitcoin (BTC) faces from Google’s quantum computer.

Buterin took to Twitter on Oct. 23, where he commented on the news that Google had achieved quantum supremacy, meaning that a quantum computer has solved a mathematical calculation that would take any traditional computer millenia to solve. Buterin shared a seemingly snarky analogy:

“My one-sentence impression of recent quantum supremacy stuff so far is that it is to real quantum computing what hydrogen bombs are to nuclear fusion. Proof that a phenomenon and the capability to extract power from it exist, but still far from directed use toward useful things.”

Quantum supremacy has “Bupkis” on Bitcoin

Bitcoin evangelist and educator Andreas Antonopoulos echoed similar sentiments towards Google’s quantum computer at the beginning of October, when he said that the threat to Bitcoin by Google’s quantum supremacy is “zip, bupkis…