Happy Bitcoin Pizza and new ATH Day 🤩

Priceless moment, two sports cars in front of the Crypto Burgers restaurant in London 🤩 #london #food #photography #uk

Possible mind-boggling explanation why Quantum Physics is so weird. Accept randomness, and everything makes sense. Thread 🧵 1 Quantum physics is mind-boggling because nature isn’t like Lego bricks — it’s fuzzy and non-deterministic. Small particles behave unpredictably, randomness is built into reality. Accept that, and suddenly, it all makes sense. 2 Particles constantly shift between phases of high randomness (superposition) and less randomness (decoherence). If the universe only applied a small amount of noise to each operation, the randomness would be too small, too much noise and the world would become unstable. 3 At its core, the universe calculates with probability distributions (wave functions) to add adaptive randomness. Without it, complex structures wouldn’t exist. The universe is playing dice with us 🎲 Mind-boggling. #quantumphysics #physics #quantum #science #stem #philosophy

How to solve Schrödinger's Cat paradox: Can a cat be dead and alive at the same time? No, it can't. Here is why 🧵 1 The paradox assumes that a decaying radioactive element is in superposition and that the superposition extends to the whole box including the cat, finally placing the cat in a dead and alive state. 2 However, what would prevent the cat from being in a superposition of two contrary states (dead and alive) is decoherence. 3 Interaction with the environment like the Giger counter would collapse the wavefunction (measurement) and nature would commit to a more concrete state. Paradox solved.

5 researchers claim that they have broken RSA 2048 encryption with D-Wave Quantum computers. In reality, they cheated. Here is how 🧵 1 They constructed a problem of weak primes that can be factorized easily by taking two identical primes and only flipping two bits (the least significant ones). 2 Secondly, they persue a hybrid approach where the relevant calculation is done by a classical computer, not quantum. 3 The Quantum Computer just solves the two flipped bits (bit 1 and 2) which is trivial, all the other 2046 bits have to be calculated by a classical computer. No Quantum Advantage whatsoever. Paper:

SciOpen

A First Successful Factorization of RSA-2048 Integer by D-Wave Quantum Computer

<p>Integer factorization, the core of the Rivest−Shamir−Adleman (RSA) attack, is an exciting but formidable challenge. As of this year, a group...

#quantumcomputer #dwave #stem #research #quantum #quantumphysics #rsa #encryption

Why (useful) quantum computers probably don't exist: 1 Superimposed quanta don't scale, hundreds of interacting superimposed quanta would require larger internal state than there are atoms in the universe. Mind-boggling. Probably not real. 2 superposition is super fragile, nature tends to determine "random" outputs instead of keeping things in superposition for a long time. 3 Noise, quantum operations are fuzzy to begin with. It's more like nature implementing a very good random number generator than doing complex exponential calculations with superpositions. Proof me wrong!

May the forth be with you 🤩 #bitcoin #starwarsday #maytheforth #meme #grok

Splinterlands, one of the first NFT-based crypto games, launched in 2018, that is still around today. (River Nymph fanart by brataka).

Splinterlands - Collect, Trade, Battle!

#splinterlands #hive #nft #cryptogame

"I can't pay groceries in Bitcoin". Not any more! Spar supermarket chain in Switzerland is going to roll out Bitcoin payments nationwide after initial test in two branches. Wow. When Austria?

Not the trade deficit (which does not include services, big tech, and finance) is the problem, deficit spending and national debt is. Tariffs won't fix fiat money.

Some Ghibli fun 😄 #bitcoin #ghibli #ai #meme

Voice mode is the future input method of computers and the way we will communicate with NPCs in VR games. Agree or disagree? #AI #voicemode #chatgpt #openai #hci #vr #games

US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve clearly distinguishes between Bitcoin and Crypto, is going to focus on seized digital assets first, very reasonable approach imho.

Visit to the world's first Bitcoin monument in Budapest, Hungary. Fun fact: The Satoshi Nakamoto statue is located in front of the Microsoft building 🤩 #bitcoin #hungary #satoshi #statue #graphisoftpark

German state TV (ZDF) geo blocked its election coverage for other EU member states yesterday. Because of "legal reasons" 😂 #bundestagswahl2025 #deutschland

Bitcoin referendum (Volksbegehren) in Austria to ditch the capital gains tax after holding bitcoin 1 year and to create a national bitcoin reserve in Austria:

Das Bitcoin Volksbegehren

How the US wants to win the AI war: by dominating AI data centers, worldwide through AI chip / GPU export controls, restrictions, sanctions and tariffs, also against its allies. DeepSeek and open-source could thwart these plans.

What problems do NFTs actually solve? trading digital art online trading in-game items ___ (fill in) NFT by nftshowroom.com/pittcn