Tag: post-quantum
All the articles with the tag "post-quantum".
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Private Stablecoins, GPU Provers, and the Rand Bridge
Stablecoins moved trillions of dollars last year across ledgers where every payment is permanently public. This is a tour of what that costs, and of one way out: a shielded stablecoin bridge whose privacy proofs are manufactured by a competitive market of GPUs. We cover why privacy is a payments requirement rather than a luxury, how the Rand Protocol prover market and bridge fit together, what the economics of a proof actually look like, and what a graphics card is really doing during the five seconds it spends convincing the world you paid your rent.
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The Math Behind Rand Protocol: A Friendly Walkthrough
A beginner-friendly tour of the mathematics behind Rand Protocol — a privacy-preserving, post-quantum blockchain that combines BFT consensus with GPU-driven zero-knowledge proving. We unpack the cryptographic primitives, the consensus protocol, and the security proofs in language a first-year graduate student in mathematics can follow.
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The 1,000-Qubit Ceiling That Probably Isn't
Oxford physicist Tim Palmer claims quantum computers face a hard 1,000-qubit ceiling that would protect RSA and ECC forever. A careful reading of the physics and the math says otherwise---and your migration timeline should not wait to find out.
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Google Just Cut the Quantum Resources to Break Bitcoin's Cryptography by 20x
Google Quantum AI, the Ethereum Foundation, and Stanford published a 57-page whitepaper showing <500,000 physical qubits and ~9 minutes suffice to break Bitcoin and Ethereum's elliptic curve cryptography---a 20x reduction over prior estimates. This is not FUD. It is an engineering specification.