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The article's core subject is a quantum error-correction result: Google's Willow chip cut errors about 40-fold in preparing magic states, a costly prerequisite for fault-tolerant computation. Its Bitcoin relevance is a downstream threat assessment, not the main story. Readers should note the modest figures, including only about 8 percent of preparation attempts succeeding, and the authors' explicit caveat that this does not make a Shor-style attack 40 times cheaper.

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Satoshi-era bitcoin faces a bigger quantum threat after Google new Willow breakthrough

GDELTOctober 17, 20265 min read

Oct 16, 2026, 10:30 p.m. EDT Satoshi-era bitcoin faces a bigger quantum threat after Google’s new Willow breakthrough. (Shutterstock) Google said its Willow quantum chip reduced errors about 40-fold when preparing “magic states,” a resource needed for quantum calculations that could eventually threaten Bitcoin wallets. The experiment achieved about 99.99 percent fidelity among states that passed inspection, though only about 8 percent of preparation attempts succeeded and substantial scaling challenges remain. The findings do not make a Bitcoin attack 40 times cheaper, but they advance an engineering method that could help future quantum computers sustain the roughly…

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