Quantum Bitcoin Mining

【Author】 Benkoczi, Robert; Gaur, Daya; Nagy, Naya; Nagy, Marius; Hossain, Shahadat

【Source】ENTROPY

【影响因子】2.738

【Abstract】This paper studies the effect of quantum computers on Bitcoin mining. The shift in computational paradigm towards quantum computation allows the entire search space of the golden nonce to be queried at once by exploiting quantum superpositions and entanglement. Using Grover's algorithm, a solution can be extracted in time O(root 2(256)/t), where t is the target value for the nonce. This is better using a square root over the classical search algorithm that requires O(2(256)/t) tries. If sufficiently large quantum computers are available for the public, mining activity in the classical sense becomes obsolete, as quantum computers always win. Without considering quantum noise, the size of the quantum computer needs to be approximate to 10(4) qubits.

【Keywords】Bitcoin; quantum algorithms; quantum security; blockchain; hash functions

【发表时间】2022 MAR

【收录时间】2022-08-02

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