Google’s willow: 105-qubit power: Google’s quantum chip, Willow, uses 105 qubits, outperforming classical supercomputers. This chip can solve problems in mere minutes that would otherwise take traditional computers millions of years, highlighting Google’s significant technological advancement in quantum computing.
Bitcoin’s defense against quantum: Bitcoin’s security system, with adaptive difficulty, resists quantum threats like Google’s Willow. Despite its immense computational power, fully leveraging this chip against Bitcoin’s network is complex; billions of stable qubits are needed, a development still years away.