Quantum Computing — Can Blockchain be Hacked?
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Quantum Computing — Can Blockchain be Hacked?“Cryptography is the field concerned with linguistic and mathematical techniques for securing information, particularly in communications” and the security characteristic of Distributed Ledger Technology. Quantum computers have long been dubbed as the Achilles’ heel of Bitcoin and the whole cryptocurrency industry. Due to their overwhelming advantage in computing speed, quantum computers could theoretically be used to disrupt the activity not only of a decentralized system or a blockchain but of any software using any kind of encryption.In Germany, you probably call that ‘Bauernfänger’ (since in Germany we have a single word for almost everything), in English perhaps ‘hornswoggle people’s attention by plotting an attention-grabbing headline’ or (...)
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