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Google just put a 2029 expiration date on Bitcoin's cryptography.
And it is so dangerous they are refusing to publish the code.
We thought a quantum attack on crypto was decades away and it would take millions of qubits and massive computing power.
But we were wrong..
Google Quantum AI just dropped a paper proving you don't need a futuristic supercomputer to break the elliptic curve cryptography that secures Bitcoin and Ethereum.
You only need 1,200 logical qubits.
That is a 20-fold reduction in the hardware previously thought necessary to crack the network.
Here is the terrifying part:
When you send Bitcoin, your public key is exposed in the "mempool" for about 10 minutes before the transaction is confirmed in a block.
Google’s researchers compiled a quantum circuit that can theoretically derive your private key from that exposed public key in roughly 9 minutes.
It takes the dreaded "mempool attack" and turns it into a mathematical reality.
Now, take a deep breath.
Existing crypto is not dead today.
Google did not actually execute this hack. The physical hardware required to run this circuit (roughly 500,000 physical qubits) does not exist yet. Today's best quantum computers are only hovering around 1,000 physical qubits.
But the math is officially solved and Google just proved exactly how to build the key.

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