Yesterday, news was given about the achievement of a historic milestone for quantum computers, which could also have consequences for the crypto sector.
It is necessary, however, to paint the general picture before understanding the scope of this event.
The generation of random numbers
The generation of random numbers is the basis for generating the seeds of crypto wallets, or private keys.
The problem, well known for some time, is that traditional computers (all of them) are unable to generate numbers that are truly completely random.
For example, those who want to create a crypto paper wallet from scratch can use tools that generate the seed or private keys randomly, but cannot be certain that they are truly generated at random. In fact, generally the tools that allow this “add entropy” by asking the user to move the mouse randomly on the screen to influence the random generation of numbers.
Before the experiment announced yesterday, a way for a machine to
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