An Open Leaderboard Just Undercut Google's Bitcoin-Cracking Math — September 11, 2026

from Quickly Quantum · host Brian Lampert

An open, crowdsourced contest of humans and AI agents claims it cut the estimated quantum cost of a key Bitcoin-cracking step by 86%, undercutting a Google benchmark — but the paper's own authors warn the comparison isn't apples-to-apples. Plus: Novo Holdings says quantum investors are overweight hardware, and Chalmers researchers find a 1,000x speedup for bosonic qubit operations.ECDSA.Fail paper — arXivResearchers And AI Agents Cut Estimated Quantum Cost of Attacking Bitcoin Encryption by 86% — The Quantum InsiderNovo Holdings Report: Quantum Investment Must Move Beyond Hardware to Build Applications — The Quantum Insider1,000 times faster operations bring reliable quantum computing a step closer — Phys.orgSource links@infleqtion on X@NEARProtocol on X@nearprotocol on X@QuantinuumQC on Xdecrypt.coquantumcomputingreport.comtech.yahoo.comthequantuminsider.comthequantuminsider.comQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.More from Brian Lampert: Concrete Compute, the daily AI infrastructure briefing, and Space Stakes, the business of the new space race. Transcripts and every episode: quickly-quantum.kngoworld.chatgpt.site.

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