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Anybody who uses the word crypto is providing a clear signal that they have not fully grasped bitcoin yet.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/why-google-now-uses-post-quantum-cryptography-for-internal-comms Public key cryptography algorithms (such as RSA and Elliptic Curve Cryptography) are secure today. However, as Google Cloud CISO Phil Venables wrote, we expect large-scale quantum computers to completely break these algorithms in the future. The cryptographic community already has developed several alternatives to these algorithms, commonly referred to as post-quantum cryptography (PQC), that we expect will be able to resist quantum computer-driven attacks.

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Bitcoin’s scarcity is rooted in the fact that there are scarce items in the digital realm: rare numbers. Some of the rarest numbers are prime numbers. Primes become incredibly scarce after 100 billion, so much so that there continues to be a global mathematical search underway for the latest prime number. — The Little Bitcoin Book, p. 32

fade 2 years ago

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