{"id":108963,"date":"2020-06-21T05:43:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T12:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/tech-giant-announces-worlds-fastest-quantum-computer-are-bitcoin-btc-and-cryptographic-systems-at-risk"},"modified":"2020-06-21T05:43:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T12:43:18","slug":"tech-giant-announces-worlds-fastest-quantum-computer-are-bitcoin-btc-and-cryptographic-systems-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/tech-giant-announces-worlds-fastest-quantum-computer-are-bitcoin-btc-and-cryptographic-systems-at-risk","title":{"rendered":"Tech Giant Announces \u2018World\u2019s Fastest Quantum Computer\u2019 \u2013 Are Bitcoin (BTC) and Cryptographic Systems at Risk?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pSzeC7wwDSc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Industrial powerhouse Honeywell says its latest quantum computer is now the fastest in the world. How quickly real-world applications will develop or how swiftly they\u2019ll be able to impact industries or affect cryptographic systems such as Bitcoin is the subject of rigorous debate.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honeywell.com\/en-us\/newsroom\/news\/2020\/06\/the-worlds-highest-performing-quantum-computer-is-here\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announcement<\/a> on Thursday, Honeywell says its team of scientists, engineers and technicians has delivered a quantum volume of 64. The metric measures both the total number of the computer\u2019s qubits and how well it handles them. IBM\u2019s machine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/blogs\/research\/2020\/01\/quantum-volume-32\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scored<\/a> a 32, suggesting Honeywell\u2019s quantum computer is twice as fast.<\/p>\n<p>Honeywell\u2019s machine is designed to add up to 640,000 quantum bits (qubits) as the system scales. Tony Uttley, president of Honeywell\u2019s quantum computing division, tells <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/honeywell-says-its-got-the-fastest-quantum-computer-on-the-planet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNET<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Industrial powerhouse Honeywell says its latest quantum computer is now the fastest in the world. How quickly real-world applications will develop or how swiftly they\u2019ll be able to impact industries or affect cryptographic systems such as Bitcoin is the subject of rigorous debate. In an announcement on Thursday, Honeywell says its team of scientists, engineers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}