Google's quantum chip Willow achieves verifiable quantum acceleration, posing a new threat to Bitcoin's cryptographic security

ChainCatcher news, Google's latest quantum processor Willow has achieved experimentally verified quantum acceleration, operating at speeds far exceeding the world's strongest supercomputer, Frontier, marking a significant step towards practical quantum computing.

Research shows that Willow improves speed by approximately 13,000 times when executing physical algorithms, completing tasks that would take traditional computers 3.2 years in just 2 hours. Experts point out that although this breakthrough is still in the research phase, it brings quantum computing closer to practical application and poses potential risks to the elliptic curve cryptography that Bitcoin relies on. Christopher Peikert, a professor at the University of Michigan, warns that quantum computing poses "substantial, even existential risks" to Bitcoin in the long term, although short-term threats remain limited.