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Morning Minute: Google Clears a Major Quantum Hurdle, Bitcoin Still Safe
Plus, crypto majors rebound despite hot PPI and Saylor’s Strategy is at risk of removal from a major index.
Tyler Warner
Publisher Decrypt
Oct 16, 2026 at 11:46 AM UTC · 4 Min. Lesezeit

Key Signal
40-fold Quantum error reduction
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bitcoin
Market Impact
BTC+0.54%$82,314
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→⚗️Google Clears a Major Quantum Hurdle, Bitcoin Still Safe
Eight days ago an Ethereum researcher told large holders to move their coins. Today Google published a result that makes him look less paranoid and more early.
Google Quantum AI cut a critical class of quantum errors roughly 40-fold on its Willow chip, per a new paper in Science. The technique attacks what may be quantum computing’s single biggest tax - producing the clean, single-use resources certain operations need, which by some estimates eats up to 95% of a machine’s capacity. Instead of building dedicated qubit factories to purify them, Google filters: inject a rough state, run it through a gauntlet of checks, throw out the 92% that fail. What survives hits 99.99% fidelity.
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