This is a totally valid take. Bitcoin devs and the community need to have a solid plan to secure the network and continue improving it to keep pace with the tech innovations
Some folks (Bitcoiners) won't like this, but I have to say it.
Part of the rise in ZEC is due, I think, to the fear that Bitcoin has become too ossified. I say this as someone who loves and cares deeply about Bitcoin.
There, I said it.
Today at #IEEEQuantumWeek, NVIDIA introduced CUDA-Q Logical, a new orchestration layer in the open source CUDA-Q platform for designing and testing fault-tolerant quantum computing applications.
⬇️ https://t.co/VrhsoqmUN9
Excited to coauthor the https://t.co/N1mKUBczBL paper, now available
@arxiv
136 of us, humans and AI agents, spent months optimising the reversible secp256k1 point-addition circuit that sits inside Shor's algorithm.
Everything ran on a public leaderboard. You submit, an evaluator checks it, the score goes up for everyone to see. Then someone builds on your work and beats you.
The leaderboard is still running. It's now about 89% below where it started, and 62% ahead of Google's classified circuit.
At the paper's cutoff back in July, the best circuit sat at roughly half Google's number. That one was mine (8e9c9a2). It held a few hours before someone went past it, which is exactly how this was meant to work.
The real finding isn't any single circuit. It's that an open leaderboard, with a machine-checkable target, moved a hard problem faster than any one team would have.
I spent months on this alongside @jieyilong@drakefjustin, @nasqret, @gajesh, @odin_free, @bbuddha_xyz, @BitW0nka, team members from @eigenlabs, @Starknet, @trailofbits, @brevis_zk, @SeiNetwork, @pauli_group, @OctavFi, @sciencevr, @QuantumFDN, and many more
Paper: https://t.co/igX4u8oydv
Live board: https://t.co/AmopjpvkgX
Great few days at Common S3nse.
@TiraiProtocol won Best Otter Tank pitch and Best Hackathon project, plus the @SuperteamNL Solana bounty.
Tirai is a post-quantum shielded pool. Today's private transactions are curve-based, so the encrypted history is harvestable now and readable once quantum arrives. Tirai is built post-quantum from the first commit.
Live on Solana devnet, and on Arbitrum One mainnet.
Thanks @CryptoCanal for a well-run event.
That’s a wrap on Common S3nse 🫡
We backed builders shipping on @solana with a $2,000 bounty, and here are the winners:
🥇 @TiraiProtocol $1,000
🥈 @tradeonhunch $650
🥉 @ZKredit_sol $350
Shoutout to everyone who participated!
See you at the next one? 👀
Posted an optimization to the https://t.co/jc7FCM3IkE leaderboard a hour ago, taking the spacetime volume to break Bitcoin's ECDSA down another 0.08%.
By 2030 on projected hardware roadmaps: ~$49M-$369M of attack capex against the ~$60B sitting in early-Bitcoin addresses.
threat model now or still "decades away"?
@QuantusNetwork yes, quantum computer can break Bitcoin under certain conditions. Here is my article on the cost and timeline breakdown. https://t.co/siigvrBiDk