The firm’s senior financial strategist is concerned the advancements in the field of quantum computing will break Bitcoin.

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    15 hours ago

    Prime factorization is one. Another is an asymptotically faster Fourier transform.

    There are several tricks in signal processing that have faster analogs in a quantum implementation. Those cool tricks are the foundation of much more complicated transformations and algorithms.

    There is an entire complexity class you can read up in: Bounded Quantum Polynomial Time (BQP).