WEF asks if Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip is a major breakthrough–could this effect crypto?
Bloch sphere representation of a qubit used by quantum computers.
(via Wikipedia)
Microsoft has a new computer chip:
February 26, 2025
The artificial intelligence (AI) arms race has yet to wrap up, but big tech is already starting a new one: the quantum computing arms race. Several big tech companies have seen the raw computing power required to create these cutting-edge AI models, and it’s clear that classical computing will work, but quantum computing is starting to become feasible for similar price points.
As a result, many top computing companies are announcing various breakthroughs in the quantum computing field, with Microsoft (MSFT -1.51%) being the latest to do so. It announced its Majorana 1 quantum chip on Feb. 19, and this announcement positions Microsoft well in the quantum computing race.
Microsoft’s breakthrough pushes it closer to winning the arms race
Quantum computing is far more powerful than traditional computing because of how it stores information. Classical computing stores information as 1s or 0s, but quantum computing stores information in a superposition between 1 and 0. This allows the technology to store much more information per qubit (the basic quantum computing information units) versus a bit (classical computing information unit). https://www.fool.com/investing/2025/02/26/microsoft-launches-its-majorana-1-quantum-computin/
The World Economic Forum (WEF) sent out the following:
25 February 2025
Why Microsoft’s Majorana 1 Chip is a Major Breakthrough? Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip, utilizing topoconductors and Majorana particles, promises more stable and scalable qubits, potentially accelerating practical quantum computing development from decades to years. This advancement could revolutionize fields like medicine, agriculture, and materials science by enabling complex computations beyond classical computers’ capabilities.
We are seeing more and more reports about faster computers as well as software developments (e.g. artificial intelligence).
As far as Europe and supercomputers go, notice the following:
February 13, 2025
D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) (“D-Wave” or the “Company”), a leader in quantum computing systems, software, and services, and the world’s first commercial supplier of quantum computers, and the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) at Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ) announced today that FZJ has purchased a D-Wave quantum computer, becoming the first high-performance computing (HPC) center in the world to own a D-Wave Advantage annealing quantum computing system.
With the purchase of the world’s largest quantum computer and Europe’s first quantum computer with more than 5,000 qubits and 15-way connectivity, the Jülich UNified Infrastructure for Quantum computing (JUNIQ), a public quantum computing user facility deployed by JSC, gains complete access to all aspects of the system– including the ability to modify system parameters and integrate the quantum system in new ways for new purposes. For example, this will allow it to be connected to the JUPITER exascale computer in the future, potentially enabling breakthroughs in areas such as artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum optimization. JUPITER, which is currently being built close to JUNIQ at the FZJ, is expected to surpass the threshold of one quintillion calculations per second. This will be the world’s first coupling of an annealing quantum computer with an exascale supercomputer, providing a first-of-a-kind opportunity for tackling the world’s toughest computational problems.
JSC’s system will be upgraded to D-Wave’s next generation Advantage2™ quantum processor unit (QPU), once it becomes available. The Advantage2 system is expected to deliver significant performance gains with doubled coherence, increased connectivity and a 40 percent boost to the energy scale for advanced problem solving.
“The D-Wave Advantage system has played a pioneering role in the development of quantum optimization, both through its contribution to breakthrough research and the development of enterprise-grade solutions across numerous industries,” said Prof. Thomas Lippert, director of JSC. “D-Wave stands alone as the only quantum vendor solving real-world problems today, and we’re thrilled to be the first HPC center in Europe to own its groundbreaking annealing quantum computer.”
“With D-Wave’s innovative technology, the integration of the system into JUNIQ and its future coupling with the exascale supercomputer JUPITER, we will take the use of quantum technology in Jülich, and on behalf of Germany and Europe, to a new level,” said Prof. Kristel Michielsen, head of JUNIQ & Quantum Computing at JSC. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250213452729/en/Forschungszentrum-J%C3%BClich-Purchases-D-Wave%E2%84%A2-Quantum-Computer-Becoming-First-High-Performance-Computing-Center-in-the-World-to-Own-D-Waves-Advantage%E2%84%A2-System
The speed of process is so fast that it is mind-boggling.
Notice that some suspect that quantum chips may be a threat to cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin:
QUANTUM ‘PUTERS, CRYPTOS, HACKERS, AND “SOUND MONEY”
February 24, 2025
Remember when crypto-currencies first came out? Why, they were the best thing since deep dish pizza. Not only would they usher in a new golden age of peace and freedom, and utterly avoid the nasty central banksters, they were entirely secure and “unhackable.” And, if you get in now, you’ll be able to make lots and lots of real money trading your electronic blips, oh, and did we mention, that there were only a certain amount of blips available, and they were on a distributed ledger which could not be hacked? …
There was no mention of the fact that no cyber systems are secure, have integrity, and could be hacked. …
Well, now there are two stories out there that should give everyone pause, one concerning quantum computing, and the other, a hack (stories courtesy of M.D. and E.E., with our thanks):
A Quantum Computer Could Crack Bitcoin in Half, Research Finds
Bitcoin, Ether Tumble As Bybit Exchange Confirms Massive $1.4 Billion Hack
Now notice what these two articles, when taken together, are really saying: the first is saying, essentially, that there is a technological hardware-way around crypto’s alleged and ballyhooed “unhackability”, demonstrating that the old maxim is true: “No matter how big and impregnable your fortress is, the Germans will invent a big cannon to blast their way into it.” By the same token, the second article is saying that there is a technique and software-way around that “unhackability”: …
The 105-qubit chip — that’s double the qubit count of the tech giant’s preceding Sycamore chip — completed a computation in under five minutes that would take a modern supercomputer a “mind-boggling” 10 septillion years, the company said.
The news reignited a debate surrounding the security of blockchains, the distributed ledgers that run digital currencies like Bitcoin. Could a future quantum computer break the cryptocurrency’s encryption, allowing thieves to abscond with unfathomable sums?
As Fortune reports, researchers at the University of Kent found in a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed study that the risk is very real. In fact, just the downtime required to update the blockchain to protect itself from an encryption-breaking quantum computer could extend to 76 days — and the resulting losses would likely be staggering. (Boldface italics emphasis added)
So, wait a minute: you mean, we’re going to have to take down any system of digital “currency” each time there’s a technology update, in order to update the unhackable system so that it’s secure and can’t be hacked? And that might take 76 days!?!?!? https://gizadeathstar.com/2025/02/quantum-computers-crypto-currencies-hackers-and-sound-mouney/
Microsoft boasts of having developed ‘entirely new state of matter’; will kick-start quantum computing
February 23, 2025
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that his company has developed an “entirely new state of matter” that will fundamentally change the computing industry.
Nadella made the claim … on X, saying that the discovery would power a new Microsoft product making a meaningful quantum computer available “not in decades, as some have predicted, but in years.”
Nadella added, “Imagine a chip that can fit in the palm of your hand yet is capable of solving problems that even all the computers on Earth today combined could not!”
According to The Washington Times, “Quantum computers are expected to solve problems exponentially faster than classical computers through the forthcoming machines’ usage of the properties of entanglement, interference, and superposition to complete calculations.”
Nadella stated:
“Most of us grew up learning there are three main types of matter that matter: solid, liquid, and gas. Today, that changed. After a nearly 20-year pursuit, we’ve created an entirely new state of matter, unlocked by a new class of materials, topoconductors, that enable a fundamental leap in computing.” …
This is the technology that will enable the global beast system and take it to new heights of tyranny and global control over human behavior.
The emergence of quantum computers will allow governments and corporate elites to break the encryption-securing systems used by people in every sector. At this point, all privacy will be gone. The government will know everything about everybody. Data is power. Don’t think it won’t be used for evil. https://leohohmann.substack.com/p/microsoft-boasts-of-having-developed
Small Step Or Giant Leap? Assessing Google’s Quantum Threat To BTC
December 19, 2024
Any major developments regarding quantum computing tend to cause a collective intake of breath among the crypto community. Google’s latest announcement launching its quantum processor, dubbed Willow, is no different. Not only does Willow feature double the number of qubits (or quantum bits, the quantum equivalent of processing capacity in traditional computers), but Google has also managed to reduce the instability usually caused by adding more qubits.
Therefore, Willow offers increased computational capacity relative to the number of additional qubits compared to other quantum machines. To put this into context, Willow takes around five minutes to execute a task that would take a standard supercomputer a trillion trillion years to process.
This significant leap forward in processing power leads to questions about Bitcoin’s legendary security, unbroken for 15 years since the genesis block. Bitcoin relies on cryptography, including the SHA-256 algorithm, which is secure enough to withstand any brute-force attack by traditional computers. But, if we put the same task in front of increasingly powerful quantum machines, a successful attack will begin to approach the point of feasibility. https://www.forbes.com/sites/nimrodlehavi/2024/12/19/small-step-or-giant-leap-assessing-googles-quantum-threat-to-btc/
I have long warned that Bitcoin had risks, and this is clearly one.
The Bible shows that a European power will arise that will control buying and selling:
16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666. (Revelation 13:16-17)
When the Apostle John penned the above, such control of buying and selling was not possible.
However, with supercomputers, AI, and digital payments it is now.
The European Union has already announced it was launching surveillance software (see ‘The EU is allowing the linking of face recognition databases to create a mega surveillance system’ 666 infrastructure being put into place).
And, now, it looks to be closer to having the supercomputer hardware to make it more of a reality.
There is also an office in the EU to enforce its financial rules.
When it was announced, we put together the following video:
The European Union is in the process of establishing the European Public Prosecutor’s Office. This is a major, first-of-its-kind move, with the EU setting up a European-wide prosecutor’s office that will have power to investigate and charge people for financial crimes committed against the EU. It looks like this type of office may end up persecuting those that do not have the mark of the Beast when they “buy or sell” as that will later be considered a financial crime in Europe. What does 666 mean? How has that name be calculated? How can we be certain that this is a prophecy for Europe and not Islam? Is the appointment of this new office of significant prophetic importance? Dr. Thiel addresses these issues and more by pointing to scriptures, news items, and historical accounts.
Here is a link to the sermonette video: EU Setting Up 666 Enforcer?
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office officially started operations on 1 June 2021 (https://www.eppo.europa.eu/en/background).
So, yes, there is an enforcer.
The EU has already stated that it wants to control crypto.
Related to that, the Continuing Church of God (CCOG) put out the following video on our Bible News Prophecy YouTube channel:
EU to be ‘Sheriff’ of BitCoin & Digital Currencies
Will Bitcoin remain unregulated? The European Union does not think it should be and it released a paper titled “Proposal for EU Regulation on Markets in Crypto-Assets.” Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, earlier endorsed EU regulation of crypto and digital currencies. A Belgian declared that the EU was the “new Sheriff in town” to deal with the “wild west” of Bitcoin, blockchain, and other cryptocurrencies. The European Union now also has the European Public Prosecutor’s Office in operation, mainly to deal with financial matters? Will the Europeans end up controlling buying and selling associated with 666 in Revelation 13:16-18? Is Europe taking preliminary steps to do so now? Dr. Thiel address these issues.
Here is a link to our video: EU to be ‘Sheriff’ of BitCoin & Digital Currencies.
Since that came out, there is faster hardware, more surveillance software, and massively faster computation ability.
Do not convince yourself that cryptocurrencies are safe and that they will not be controlled by the coming 666 power.
The Continuing Church of God put out the following video on its ContinuingCOG channel:
Bitcoin … as good as gold?
“Bringing you news and analysis of world events in light of Bible prophecy.” This is the mandate of the Continuing Church of God. The world events Dr. Thiel will focus on today will be the recent record rise in the value of Bitcoin to over $100,000.00 The are several questions that will be addressed. Among them are: Will Bitcoin replace gold? Is Bitcoin as valuable as gold? Will nations just accumulate Bitcoin, will they just accumulate gold, or will they accumulate both? Will governments embrace Bitcoin? What about the US dollar? Will it be replaced by Bitcoin? Is it possible that the US Dollar will still be the world’s reserve currency well into the Great Tribulation? How about Bitcoin? Is something similar to Bitcoin prophesied in the Bible? Dr. Thiel addresses these world news items in light of Bible prophecy. He uses scriptures that address the status of the US Dollar’s value during the Great Tribulation as well as the use of a Bitcoin, like crypto currency, by the Beast of Revelation 13. Is it possible that both gold and Bitcoin will be useless as a hope for salvation? Dr. Thiel gives the prophetic answer to that question at the end of this video.
Here is a link to our video: Bitcoin … as good as gold?
Do NOT place your confidence in Bitcoin, the US dollar, silver, or gold, but “seek first the Kingdom of God” (Matthew 6:33).
Some items of possibly related interest may include:
Preparing for the ‘Short Work’ and The Famine of the Word What is the ‘short work’ of Romans 9:28? Who is preparing for it? Here is a link to a related video sermon titled: The Short Work. Here is a link to another: Preparing to Instruct Many.
Internet Censorship and Prophecy Are concerns about internet censorship limited to nations such as Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea. But what about the USA, Canada, and Germany? What about the European Union? What about internet media companies such as Facebook, Google, YouTube, or email services like MailChimp? Has the attempt to control information been made by various ones over the centuries? Was the New Testament affected by it? What about the church throughout the centuries? Has the Bible already been partially censored? Which Bible prophecies point to coming Internet censorship? What about the Book of Amos? What about the coming 666 Beast and final Antichrist? Is there anything that can be done about this? Should Philadelphian Christians be working on anything now? Will preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom of God vs. a highly media-supported alternative lead to a ‘famine of the word’? More internet censorship is coming as various statements in the Bible support.
Europa, the Beast, and Revelation Where did Europe get its name? What might Europe have to do with the Book of Revelation? What about “the Beast”? Is an emerging European power “the daughter of Babylon”? What is ahead for Europe? Here is are links to related videos: European history and the Bible, Europe In Prophecy, The End of European Babylon, and Can You Prove that the Beast to Come is European? Here is a link to a related sermon in the Spanish language: El Fin de la Babilonia Europea.
The European Union and the Seven Kings of Revelation 17 Could the European Union be the sixth king that now is, but is not? Here is a link to the related sermon video: European Union & 7 Kings of Revelation 17:10.
Must the Ten Kings of Revelation 17:12 Rule over Ten Currently Existing Nations? Some claim that these passages refer to a gathering of 10 currently existing nations together, while one group teaches that this is referring to 11 nations getting together. Is that what Revelation 17:12-13 refers to? The ramifications of misunderstanding this are enormous. Here is a link to a related sermon in the Spanish language: ¿Deben los Diez Reyes gobernar sobre diez naciones? A related sermon in the English language is titled: Ten Kings of Revelation and the Great Tribulation.
European Technology and the Beast of Revelation Will the coming European Beast power would use and develop technology that will result in the taking over of the USA and its Anglo-Saxon allies? Is this possible? What does the Bible teach? Here is a related YouTube video: Military Technology and the Beast of Revelation.
Persecutions by Church and State This article documents some that have occurred against those associated with the COGs and some prophesied to occur. Will those with the cross be the persecutors or the persecuted–this article has the shocking answer. There are also three video sermons you can watch: Cancel Culture and Christian Persecution, The Coming Persecution of the Church, and Christian Persecution from the Beast. Here is information in the Spanish language: Persecuciones de la Iglesia y el Estado.
Orwell’s 1984 by 2024? In 1949, the late George Orwell wrote a disturbing book about a totalitarian government called “nineteen-eighty four.” Despite laws that are supposed to protect freedom of speech and religion, we are seeing governments taking steps consistent with those that George Orwell warned against. We are also seeing this in the media, academia, and in private companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter. With the advent of technology, totalitarianism beyond what Orwell wrote is possible. Does the Bible teach the coming a totalitarian state similar to George Orwell’s? What about the Antichrist and 666? Will things get worse? What is the solution? Dr. Thiel answers these questions and more in this video.
The Mark of Antichrist What is the mark of Antichrist? What have various ones claimed? Here is a link to a related sermon What is the ‘Mark of Antichrist’?
Mark of the Beast What is the mark of the Beast? Who is the Beast? What have various ones claimed the mark is? What is the ‘Mark of the Beast’?
The Large Hadron Collider has Military Potential Some say this European project is only peaceful. So why is it working on capturing antimatter? Here is a link to a related video: Could the Large Hadron Collider lead to destruction?
Two Horned Beast of Revelation and 666 Who is 666? This article explains how the COG views this, and compares this to Ellen White. Here is a link to a prophetic video Six Financial Steps Leading to 666?
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