Microsoft announced the release of the topological quantum chip Majorana 2 at the annual Build conference, claiming its reliability has increased 1,000 times over the previous generation, with an average qubit lifespan of 20 seconds, and some lasting about 1 minute. Microsoft stated that AI Agent tools help the team accelerate material screening, automate measurement, and optimize manufacturing processes, and they expect to move closer to scalable quantum computing by 2029. Decrypt pointed out that this progress has reignited discussions about the future threat of quantum computing to Bitcoin's digital signature security, but it does not mean that current quantum computers can attack Bitcoin. (Decrypt)

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GlassDome
· 3h ago
How many years have Majorana fermions been searched for? Did Microsoft’s recent “breakthrough” represent a real breakthrough, or is it just another PowerPoint presentation?
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PerpPulse
· 7h ago
20-second lifespan, 1000x improvement, sounds like a leap from unusable to barely usable
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TheSolitaryRockBehindThe
· 7h ago
Microsoft is dangling promises of 2029 again—the story that quantum threats will undermine Bitcoin is about to be hyped for a few more years.
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IHateFalseProsperity.
· 7h ago
Quantum computing threats are brought up every year to scare people about Bitcoin, and the market has become immune to it.
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FragilePosition
· 7h ago
Microsoft’s quantum efforts are much more low-key than IBM’s and Google’s—they suddenly made a big move.
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LateBlockLarry
· 7h ago
When quantum computers are truly capable of running Shor's algorithm, Bitcoin will have already completed its fork upgrade.
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FlamingoFacingJudgment
· 7h ago
20 seconds is enough for what? It takes longer just to brew a cup of coffee.
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GateUser-af0ea0c9
· 7h ago
The news should be most concerning for traditional cryptography, not the cryptocurrency world.
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HexiHoodie
· 7h ago
Topologically protected qubits are theoretically more fault-tolerant; engineering them is the real hell.
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GateUser-83a2dd8a
· 7h ago
Choosing the 2029 node was a great decision, just enough to avoid the need to settle during this cycle.
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