Google’s Willow quantum chip brings Bitcoin security debate 10 years closer
Google has unveiled its latest innovation, the Willow quantum computing chip, stirring discussions within the crypto community about its potential impact on Bitcoin’s cryptographic security.
On Dec. 9, Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, introduced the Willow chip as a breakthrough in quantum computing. It boasts error reduction capabilities and 105 qubits, a new computational power milestone.
A Quantum leap in computing
Pichai revealed that Willow achieved a benchmark computation in under five minutes that would take a modern supercomputer an astonishing ten septillion years—a timeline incomprehensibly longer than the universe’s age of 13.8 billion years.
Further, Willow’s design includes low-error-rate gates and high-connectivity…
