So, you probably heard about Nic Carter-backed Project Eleven's big announcement today that they awarded a 1BTC prize for cracking a 15-bit elliptic curve key (#1478012).
Now there's a person claiming that the prize winner stole their code and didn't actually use a quantum computer to achieve their results (they just brute-forced it #1478156) and also that they broke a bigger key than the prize winner.
I don't know anything about SilkForgeAI. Maybe they are just trying to discredit the winner. Maybe they are a grumpy bitcoiner who wants to rain on the quantum parade. They only have 22 followers on X and nobody seems to be interacting with them much. Also, Project Eleven blocked them.
...But they did create a github repo 4 months ago, with their proofs added at least 3 weeks ago.
https://github.com/SilkForgeAi/QDayPrizeSubmission
Is just FUD spread by well known bitcoin enemies... all these crap things are to scare the shit out of masses that still are not into bitcoinn, to keep them away.
What is this clown show?
A 130 bit Bitcoin Puzzle was already solved using Pollard's Kangaroo back in 2024:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5218972.msg53649852#msg53649852
While I was reading the post BTCpuzzle came to mind.
I don't really understand what the significance of any of this is. It sounds like they're doing it on IBM hardware. And right now, the whole challenge is the hardware engineering side. What's the innovation that they did, that justifies a big reward, if they're just running programs on someone else's hardware?
15-bits is 2^15 combinations of 1, 0
256-bits is 2^256 combinations of 1, 0
And yes, it can stay that simple, since quantum processors are not scalable like a Kubernetes cluster of nodes
uuuuh, nooooee.
I can only stay on top of one idiotic Bitcoin trend at a time. My role is covering Strategy and financialization nonsense... I'll delegate my vote, opinion, and posting on quantum to you!
I just wanted to check out Project 11 to see what kind of bullshit was being peddled, but the web site blocked my vanadium browser on a graphene pixel. I guess the transparency site was trying to secretly track me.
https://twiiit.com/SilkForgeAi/status/2047744229540069603