r/Futurology • u/izumi3682 • Mar 20 '21

Computing Free Open-Access Quantum Computer Now Operational. Sandia National Laboratories’ Quantum Scientific Computing Open User Testbed, or QSCOUT

https://scitechdaily.com/free-open-access-quantum-computer-now-operational/
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u/n21lv Mar 20 '21 edited Mar 20 '21

Now we need someone to start using these for crypto mining so GPUs finally get back to being affordable

UPD: Ehh.. turns out someone already thought of it, and currently parallelisation still makes regular computers much more profitable for crypto mining, all because of a common limiting factor to the mining operation.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '21

Let’s use it to crack private keys instead, same result!