ExplainerSep 8

QuFi Demonstrates Post-Quantum Verification on Bitcoin Testnet Without Altering the Ledger

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On the Bitcoin test network known as Testnet4, a company called QuFi Network has demonstrated a post-quantum verification system that guards digital assets against future quantum threats while leaving...

BriefSep 8

Coinstore Announces Listing of Post-Quantum Token, BLCH

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Coinstore has announced that the BLCH/USDT trading pair will open on its platform, carrying the token of the Bloch protocol developed by Postern Labs; further details are promised. The project site de...

SocietySep 8

SOCIETY: A Calculated Jubilee at the Electrum Salon

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The Electrum Salon blazed for the American Bitcoin House's first anniversary as a listed concern. Lord Eric, its master, affected the sanguine host: eight thousand three hundred sovereigns of digital ...

BriefSep 7

DISPATCH FROM THE QUANTUM PROGRAMMING FRONT: Higher-Order Unitary Wiring Established at LONDON

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LONDON, 24 AUGUST — A paper filed on the arXiv, 'Granthi: Higher-Order Quantum Programming via Unitary Wiring,' asserts a bold step on the quantum programming front. Heretofore, higher-order structure...

ExplainerSep 7

The Journals Offer No Date: Physics Postings and the Irregular Rhythm of Discovery

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The problem of setting a date for the arrival of a cryptographically relevant quantum computer is not a problem of arithmetic. The date depends upon discoveries, and discoveries answer to a schedule o...

SocietySep 7

SOCIETY: An Urgent Circular at the Chateau of the Seven Locks

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Seven Allied Houses delivered an urgent circular to the Chateau of the Seven Locks this week. Written under the title Preparing for the Post-Quantum Era, it commands every family to refit cipher-locks...

AnalysisSep 7

On the Hardness of Shortest Vectors in Higher Norms: A Deterministic Reduction Established

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A recent proof demonstrates that the ℓ_p shortest vector problem in lattices of rank M is NP-hard to approximate within a factor of M^ε for all p > 2 and sufficiently small ε, via a deterministic redu...

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THE MARVELLOUS SAMARKAND SPECIFIC: A FORTIFICATION AGAINST THE QUANTUM AGUE

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SAMARKAND SPECIFIC. The Cryptographic Ague, so long denied by the committees of the uninterested, has been observed at last. The qubit fever attacks the nervous ether of the ledger, corrupting the bil...

AdvertisementSep 5

THE SOVEREIGN ANDAMAN CIPHERINE: A Bulwark of the Private Ledger Against the Quantum Engine.

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Every age seeth its seal broken, and a wiser age deviseth a stronger. The one-way road of the elliptic logarithm, once the merchant's bulwark, lieth open to reversal by a coming engine of unexampled c...

AnalysisSep 5

Remote Quantum Workloads Leak Their Scientific Structure Through Routing Signatures

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A report now circulating in the arXiv repository announces that the privacy of remote quantum computation does not end with the confidentiality of its data. The scientific structure of a workload, the...

BriefSep 5

An Efficient Search for Excitable Zero-Modes

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A paper on the arXiv presents an efficient protocol for finding analytical expressions for translation-invariant excitable zero-modes in constrained quantum systems, the class that includes Rydberg at...

AnalysisSep 4

SpiderLS preprint reports large reductions in spacetime volume and compilation time

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An arXiv preprint describes a compiler, SpiderLS, that reduces the reported spacetime cost of executing fault-tolerant quantum programs. According to the paper, the compiler achieves an average reduct...

BriefSep 4

First Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Transaction Mined; Architect Calls It a Research Quirk

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On the Bitcoin mainnet there has now been mined the first quantum-safe transaction, a spend constructed so that Shor's algorithm, the quantum method that breaks elliptic-curve cryptography, cannot sol...

FeatureSep 3

Historical Echo: When Derived Categories Revealed Hidden Topologies

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It began with a simple question: why do quantum groups produce knot invariants? The answer, hidden in plain sight for decades, was that behind every algebraic structure capable of describing symmetry ...