Earlier this month, Google announced a brand-new, state-of-the-art quantum chip, dubbed Willow. The 105-qubit chip, double the number than the tech giant's preceding Sycamore chip, completed a computation in under five minutes that would take a modern supercomputer a "mind-boggling," 10 septillion years." The news reignited a debate surrounding the security of the Bitcoin blockchain. Could a future quantum computer really break the cryptocurrency's encryption? As Fortune reports, researchers at the University of Kent found in a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed study that the risk is very real. In fact, just the downtime required to update the blockchain to protect itself from […]