I came for the Signal, but stayed for the Noise.
"If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics." -Richard Feynman
Happy to see friend and long term supporter of @qBitTensorLabs, @RyanBequette on the main stage at exploit pitching an innovative concept for a potential subnet-- Carbon.
Good luck Ryan!
512-bit RSA was commonly used throughout the 1990s, especially in export versions of software limited by US regulations. It was publicly factored in 1999 and largely phased out for new deployments after export controls relaxed in 2000, though scattered legacy uses lingered into the 2010s.
Well-- I've been saying it for months, but now they are saying it too. Publically.
"The result aligns with our own public hardware roadmap for 2028, and reinforces why enterprises should accelerate cryptographic discovery and migration now."
ionq.com/blog/the-first-full…
🚨 MILESTONE SOLVED: 500-bit RSA Broken 🚨
Breaking RSA Milestone 4 with @terraquantum_ag has been solved!
Congratulations to Xdev for becoming the first to break 500-bit RSA and claiming the $20,000 USD prize.
This milestone saw more than 100 submissions, with miners continuously improving on previous solutions in a race to be first across the finish line.
The winning code is now available on our website:
qbittensorlabs.com/enigma/ch…
On to the next milestone. 🚀
#Enigma#SN63#BreakingRSA#TerraQuantum
Ep. 91 - Bob Wold
Bob @BeyondNISQ is building Enigma @EnigmaSN63 and founder of @qBitTensorLabs
Timestamps
1:15 - Introduction
1:54 - Bob's Entry From Quantum World
2:58 - Qubit & Superposition Explained
3:09 - Bob's Journey Into Bittensor
4:23 - Backlash From Traditional Quantum Colleagues
5:38 - Quantum Rings vs. qBitTensorLabs
6:14 - SN48 & SN63: How the Two Subnets Relate
6:54 - SN48: Quantum Compute Marketplace
7:39 - The Pivot: From Quantum Innovate to Enigma
8:33 - Incentivizing Breaking Things
9:52 - Enigma's Bounty & Challenge Model
10:07 - Two Entry Points: Academics vs. Hackers
10:57 - Submission Fees & Anti-DoS Mechanics
13:38 - Q-Day: When Quantum Breaks Encryption
15:33 - DARPA Chart: RSA 2048 & Logical Qubits
17:41 - IonQ 2028 Roadmap & 1,600 Logical Qubits
19:33 - RSA, Prime Numbers & Shor's Algorithm
20:57 - Google's Paper: 1,400 Qubits Breaks Bitcoin
22:44 - IonQ Photonic Interconnect: One Risk De-risked
23:54 - Q-Day Won't Be Announced When It Happens
25:32 - Treasury Wallets: Trustless Prize Pools
31:42 - What Treasury Wallets Actually Are
33:45 - Live Challenge: Drain the $ 5K Wallet
34:54 - Breaking RSA & Peaked Circuit Challenges
37:32 - Pressure Testing as a Service
38:18 - Defining Exploits: Code Is Explicit
42:11 - Evaluation Loop
47:24 - Revenue Model & Feral GPL Licensing
49:45 - Commercial Licensing & Royalties
54:33 - Beyond NISQ: What the Name Means
56:16 - When Does the NISQ Era End?
57:56 - Offense vs. Defense: Will Encryption Keep Up?
1:02:15 - What Bob Is Most Excited About for Enigma
1:05:02 - Advice for Professionals Entering Bittensor
The bottleneck holding quantum computing back isn't hardware.
It's that nobody's teaching physicists how to use it.
@QuantumRingsInc fixed that. Here's how 👇
piped.video/wWZ-k4Fp_P4
Google also published new resource estimates for breaking crypto: 1,200 logical qubits or 1,450 logical qubits depending on the architecture.
This is a 10x improvement over the best previously published work.
All your models are destroyed.
Google considers the underlying quantum circuits too dangerous to publish…
This is the ❗️FIRST❗️ time this has happened in quantum resource estimation.
Google is treating blockchains like a security vulnerability that will be exploited.
New paper with results claiming that 1k qubits (but more gates) can run decryption.
We shouldn’t underestimate how many quantum algorithm improvements remain to be found, even for very well studied applications.
Link below
It was great to spend the weekend with the Hackers, the industry sponsors, and the facilitators. Always inspired by what small teams of passionate people can do in a short period of time.
Witness hundreds of students from across the world contributing to @OpenQuantum_ as they compete to solve the Quantum Rings Challenge in the 2026 @MIT#iQuHACK event.
Won't be long before quantum gigabrains like these are competing for massive payouts on #SN63...
Could this be true?
@IcebergQuantum just claimed that instead of ~1M physical qubits, RSA 2048 can now be broken with ~100k physical qubits using their LDPC codes.
"As a concrete demonstration, Pinnacle shows how breaking RSA-2048 — long considered to require millions of physical qubits — could be achieved with fewer than one hundred thousand"
finance.yahoo.com/news/icebe…
While we still have a long way to go to 100k qubits, we seems to be getting about a 10x reduction each year, while quantum computers rapidly grow.
Don't Panic, Do Prepare.
Anyone from the Bittensor ecosystem making the trip out to Colorado for @EthereumDenver?
My team is bouncing around the idea of setting up a casual open coffee hour near the venue during the conference, and I wanted to see if anyone would be interested.