{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Quickly Quantum","title":"An Open Leaderboard Just Undercut Google's Bitcoin-Cracking Math — September 11, 2026","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/3c9da1bb\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":872,"description":"An open, crowdsourced contest of humans and AI agents claims it cut the estimated quantum cost of a key Bitcoin-cracking step by 86%, undercutting a Google benchmark — but the paper's own authors warn the comparison isn't apples-to-apples. Plus: Novo Holdings says quantum investors are overweight hardware, and Chalmers researchers find a 1,000x speedup for bosonic qubit operations.\nECDSA.Fail paper — arXiv\nResearchers And AI Agents Cut Estimated Quantum Cost of Attacking Bitcoin Encryption by 86% — The Quantum Insider\nNovo Holdings Report: Quantum Investment Must Move Beyond Hardware to Build Applications — The Quantum Insider\n1,000 times faster operations bring reliable quantum computing a step closer — Phys.org\nSource links\n@infleqtion on X\n@NEARProtocol on X\n@nearprotocol on X\n@QuantinuumQC on X\ndecrypt.co\nquantumcomputingreport.com\ntech.yahoo.com\nthequantuminsider.com\nthequantuminsider.com\nQuickly Quantum is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.\nMore from Brian Lampert: Concrete Compute, the daily AI infrastructure briefing, and Space Stakes, the business of the new space race. Transcripts and every episode: quickly-quantum.kngoworld.chatgpt.site.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/1qOeu8wRfJFs3z-U1wrMD-YZu-jcbB7N-VepH0eoyOg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zZTQ5/Y2VkNzY3NzhhZTcw/MzQwZTM3NGEwOWMy/YmU2Ny5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}