literally every new discovery: exists
capitalists: can we make money with this
What ever happened to Cloudflares wall of lava lamps?
They don’t have quantum in the name.
For anyone wondering: https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/lava-lamp-encryption/
They’ve pissed so many billions of dollars into quantum computing, at least they’re using it for something.
Did anyone tell them that you can use the noise in a semiconductor junction to produce truly random numbers too? You can buy one for a few pennies.
Isn’t there a truly random generator based on Lava Lamps? Lol
But I think the issue is the rate at which you can get random numbers
IIRC that’s Cloudflares random number generator.
It’s probably not truly random, when two centuries from now people have descended a few more levels down. Just like their result
Having worked in the field and having seen my fair share of supposedly “true” random numbers, I would really like to see how they would proof this bold claim.
*as random as any other method
First one to hack the bitcoin blockchain wins
I’m crypto-neutral and quantum-skeptical but this seems like a legit threat.
The other major cryptos have moved to a proof-of-stake which is more centralized, but also more flexible. For example I can easily imagine ETH upgrading to post-quantum cryptography.
But Bitcoin is much less flexible. It has never evolved past proof-of-work. It’s much harder for me to imagine a unified upgrade for post-quantum BTC.
I mean, your non-upgraded coins being worthless should be a pretty solid motivator.
Is it truly random though? If in a specific point in time, the number generated is always the same, then that’s not truly random.
Absolute true randomness would be a different result every time it is generated in that specific point in time.
A bit Sci-Fi and probably unrealistic opinion, but it does make me curious about how this kind of randomness could be implemented.
this is not a bad point but it also feels a bit like moving the goal posts
