JPMorgan researchers say they have generated and certified truly random numbers using a quantum computer, a world-first with potential security and trading uses.
JPMorgan researchers say they have generated and certified truly random numbers using a quantum computer, a world-first with potential security and trading uses.
The random number they generated is 53.
Truly random. I would have never guessed that one.
Mine said 42. I guess the only thing left I'm wondering is what was the question?
Wrong, it was 4
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.
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.
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.
literally every new discovery: exists
capitalists: can we make money with this
For a number to be truly random (assuming positive integers) wouldn’t it have to be anywhere between 1 and infinity? What good is a 20 million digit long integer? Or a 103 billion digit long integer?
What I mean is, is it possible to even have a truly random number within a set of rules, say 1-100?
I guess I already gave a rule by saying positive integers, I don’t know this is crazy!
But have you ever come up with a random number on weeeeeeeeed, mannnnn
If you select a number “fairly” (ie every number equally likely, not skewed towards smaller numbers) and your scale goes to infinity, I’m pretty sure the number you get out will be infinitely long, almost always (sure, you could get the number 10, but infinity is… infinite, so any number that gets picked will tend to be beyond anything we ever experience or know how to write down)
To put it another way, using your scheme, we’d only ever need 1 random number ever, it’d just keep printing forever and we could cut up chunks of it whenever we needed some random and it would just keep printing on and on.
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