In this episode of Unchained Premium, Colton Dillon, co-founder of Postquant Labs, joined Laura to talk about Quip Network, a marketplace that gets quantum and classical computers to solve problems together and pays classical machines in tokens for verifying that the quantum computers are being honest.
The conversation covers how Quip uses blockchain consensus and blind quantum computing to instantly detect a cheating operator, how zero-knowledge proofs of jurisdiction let quantum computers comply with export controls without exposing who submitted a job, and how Colton thinks Google’s claim that a 500,000-qubit machine could break elliptic curve cryptography in 9 minutes changes the timeline for quantum risk to blockchains.
He also lays out where quantum computers already outperform classical ones today, from D-Wave’s Advantage2 beating a cluster of 80 Nvidia H100 GPUs to FedEx and DHL cutting costs on delivery routing.
Is the realm of quantum computing no longer restricted to PhDs? And can it currently make a difference for you?
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