Was Vitalik's Quantum Computer quest a scam, before creating Ethereum? Approx. 2013.
Bin zufällig über eine wenig bekannte, witzige Story über den Ethereum-Gründer Vitalik Buterin gestoßen, die eher auf Hörensagen beruht. Nicht 100% ernst nehmen, aber ist trotzdem witzig. Bevor Vitalik Ethereum gegründet hat, soll er mit einem Kollegen versucht haben, ein umstrittenes Quantum-Computer-Startup zu pitchen, um Bitcoin zu minen.
Die Grundidee war, da es zu diesem Zeitpunkt (und wie vor Kurzem in einem anderen Post beschrieben bis heute) keinen Quanten-Computer gibt, der SHA-256 berechnen kann, einen Quanten-Computer, und jetzt haltet euch fest, auf einem klassischen Computer zu simulieren und mit diesem simulierten Quanten-Computer Bitcoin zu minen und zwar effizienter als alle anderen Miner, auf einem normalen Computer.
Ein Quanten-Computer wäre dann gar nicht mehr notwendig. Problem solved 😂
Diese Idee war natürlich schon damals höchst umstritten. Wenn man Quanten-Computer ohnehin auf klassischen Computern effizient simulieren könnte, wozu dann überhaupt noch QC bauen?
Sollte sich in Zukunft herausstellen, dass QC weniger leistungsstark sind als angenommen (und die Leistung mehr auf einer mathematischen Schwäche der Trapdoor-Funktion beruht) und sich diese tatsächlich auf klassischen Computern simulieren lassen, dann hätte man aber auch keinen Geschwindigkeitsvorteil durch QC.
Was sagt ihr dazu? Kanntet ihr die Story bereits? Denkt ihr, es ist etwas Wahres dran oder ist das eher Gerüchteküche, um Ethereum schlecht zu machen?
Vitalik’s Quantum Quest
https://medium.com/bitcoinerrorlog/vitaliks-quantum-quest-9e6af6570f23
Bitcoin University: Vitalik's Quantum Computer Scam
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I came across a little-known, funny story about Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin, which is based more on hearsay and rumors. Take it with a grain of salt, but it's still funny. Before Vitalik founded Ethereum, he and a colleague are said to have tried to pitch a controversial quantum computing startup to mine Bitcoin.
The basic idea was, since there was no quantum computer at the time (and as recently described in another post to this day) that could compute SHA-256, to simulate a quantum computer, and now brace yourselves, on a classical computer and use this simulated quantum computer to mine Bitcoin more efficiently than any other miner, on a normal computer.
A quantum computer would then no longer be necessary. Problem solved 😂
Of course, this idea was already highly controversial at the time and, in my opinion, a scam. If quantum computers could be efficiently simulated on classical computers anyway, why build a QC in the first place?
If it turns out in the future that QC are less powerful than assumed (and the performance is based more on a mathematical weakness of the trapdoor function) and these can actually be simulated on classical computers, then there would be no speed advantage from QC.
What do you think? Did you already know the story? Do you think there's any truth to it or is this just rumor mongering to make Ethereum look bad?
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