Tion：最近，项目11（一个量子计算研究小组）宣布了1个比特币奖励，以完成挑战

十一（一个量子计算研究小组）为一线队宣布了1个比特币的奖励

Recently, Project Eleven announced a 1 bitcoin reward for the first team able to complete a challenge to demonstrate breaking a ECC (elliptic curve cryptograph) key using Shor’s algorithm on a quantum computer.

最近，Project 11宣布了1个比特币的奖励，该团队能够完成挑战，以证明使用Shor的算法在Quantum计算机上展示ECC（椭圆曲线密码）密钥。

The challenge, and the bounty for completing it, were announced in April 2025 and the deadline for completing the challenge is April 5th, 2026, meaning in order to qualify for the prize a team must demonstrate breaking a key pair it must be done before that deadline.

挑战和完成它的赏金在2025年4月宣布，完成挑战的截止日期是2026年4月5日，这意味着为了获得奖品的资格，一支团队必须证明一对要违反一对关键对，必须在该截止日期之前完成。

This is frankly a completely absurd and meaningless prize for a number of reasons, the first of which is the deadline of just under a year from today. Even highly optimistic projections about the progress of quantum computing put the timeline of practically achieving such a goal at more like 5-10 years. Expecting a workable proof of concept demonstration that actually breaks a keypair in a single year is pretty laughable at face value, even if you do view quantum computing as a material threat in the short term.

坦率地说，这是一个完全荒谬而毫无意义的奖品，原因有很多，第一个是从今天起不到一年的截止日期。即使是关于量子计算进步的高度乐观的预测，实际上在5 - 10年的时间内实现了这样一个目标的时间表。即使您确实在短期内将量子计算视为物质威胁，也可以期待可行的概念证明证明实际上会在一年中打破按键的概念。

Next is the factor of economic incentives. A single bitcoin is currently worth approximately $80,000. That is frankly not a lot of money in the grand scheme of things. Especially when it comes to the application of a cutting edge technology like quantum computing that can perform an entire class of computation exponentially faster than a classical computer. Imagine how much more valuable things could be done with a working quantum computer.

接下来是经济激励措施的因素。一个比特币目前价值约80,000美元。坦率地说，这在宏伟的计划中并不多。尤其是当涉及到尖端技术（例如量子计算）时，该技术可以比经典计算机更快地执行整个计算类别。想象一下，有效的量子计算机可以做多少有价值的事情。

You could eavesdrop on internet connections regardless of TLS, breaking secure connections to banks, equity brokerages, private corporate networks not using post-quantum cryptography. You could break every private messenger application on the planet, you could decrypt any PGP encrypted message sent over email that you knew the public key for. You could break the entire DNS system’s certificate authority hierarchy, allowing you to impersonate any server in the world a user tries to connect to.

无论TLS如何，您都可以在Internet连接上窃听，从而打破了与银行，股票经纪人，私人公司网络不使用后Quantum Cryptography的安全连接。您可以打破地球上的每个私人Messenger应用程序，可以解密您知道公共密钥的电子邮件发送的任何PGP加密消息。您可以打破整个DNS系统的证书授权层次结构，使您可以模仿用户尝试连接到世界上的任何服务器。

All of these things have immeasurable value beyond just a mere $84,000. Why on Earth would someone with a working quantum computer publicly reveal that fact to claim a single bitcoin when they could take advantage of all these other things they would be capable of doing?

所有这些东西都具有不可估量的价值，而不仅仅是84,000美元。为什么在地球上有人可以公开揭示这一事实要求单一比特币，而他们可以利用所有其他这些事情可以做的事情？

Okay, let’s sweep all of those possibilities aside and pretend the entire world magically migrates to post-quantum cryptography aside from Bitcoin. It still makes no sense to try to publicly claim this prize if you have a functional quantum computer.

好吧，让我们扫除所有这些可能性，并假装全世界神奇地迁移到量子后加密术，除了比特币外。如果您拥有功能性量子计算机，尝试公开声称此奖品仍然没有意义。

Let’s assume you have a barely performant enough quantum computer, that it takes a decent amount of time to crack a single key. How many bare public keys are there securing 50 BTC outputs from the first mining epoch? THOUSANDS of them. Why on Earth would you crack one, and then go tell everyone publicly to claim a single bitcoin? You would just try to crack as many of those early coinbase rewards as possible before people detected you.

假设您几乎没有足够的量子计算机，那么破裂单键需要大量时间。有多少个裸露的公共钥匙可以从第一个采矿时期获得50个BTC输出？他们中的成千上万。您为什么要在地球上破解一个，然后去公开告诉所有人要求一个比特币？您只会尝试在人们发现您之前尽可能多地破解那些早期的Coinbase奖励。

Finally, the timetable on its own is just absurd. Quantum computers currently are not even capable of factoring prime numbers that people can do themselves in their heads mentally. In a single year the technology is going to jump from that to cracking Bitcoin keys? That’s absurd.

最后，时间表本身只是荒谬的。量子计算机目前甚至没有能力考虑人们可以在精神上做自己的质量数字。在一年中，该技术将从该技术跳到破裂的比特币钥匙？那太荒谬了。

So what the hell is the point of this prize except some publicity stunt? It’s utterly meaningless as a serious bounty to function as a canary in the coalmine for us, no matter how concerned or unconcerned you are with the timeframes of quantum computers as a threat.

那么，除了一些宣传特技外，该奖项的重点是什么呢？对于我们来说，作为煤矿中的金丝雀，无论您多么关心或不关心量子计算机的时间范围，这是一种严肃的赏金，这是一个非常有意义的赏金。

This bounty is a joke.

这个赏金是个玩笑。