And those votes, when you go online, you can see the votes, okay, I'm proposing this,


QRL Q & A #2- Okay, but exactly HOW might a Quantum Computer Break Bitcoin?

I'm proposing this and the proposals, you know, Bitcoin doesn't, Bitcoin doesn't have this


advanced governance structure where the transparency and things like that.


So I mean, that becomes, that becomes a bit of a challenge.


I mean, you do have, you have common repositories and things like GitHub that'll do that,


but, you know, but nothing on change and just the scale, the number of people that would


have to come to agreement.


That works really great for consensus of transactions.


It becomes quite a bit more difficult once you involve people.


And you bring up a great point too with the governance and I think that a lot of people


are just looking at it from the wrong viewpoint of their, they're not actually like, if


you look at it actually of what the addresses, if you're looking at the public, it's like,


if that is public knowledge to other people, then there's a threat so you doesn't matter


how you're storing it.


If that public address is being shown wherever, whether it was in the past or currently,


but, no, I appreciate you diving into that.


I feel like that's a really kind of one that we can talk about for a while, but I appreciate


you answering a few of these questions.


And what we're going to be doing in some of the upcoming episodes, we're going to be diving


more into depending on when you're watching this video, we're going to have the new QRL


website launch.


You might already be launched, depending on when you are watching this video, more exciting


news coming up with the move to POS on clave and the strike.


Appreciate you taking a few minutes of time to dive into some of these answers based


on internal meetings that we're having within the team.


And I appreciate you watching from strike.


And I have a great rest of the day and we will see you in the next video.


Thank you guys.


Thank you.


Keep shaped.


How to Mine QRL In Depth with RandomX | Updated Walkthrough for Windows

In today's episode, we're going to show you how to properly mine QRL.


Michael Striken, our team, is going to smoothly walk you through this setup, step-by-step,


configurations. He's going to put down a few important notes so that you don't hit any roadblocks


or hiccups along the way. And by the end of this episode, you're going to be up and running


and mining QRL. Let's dive in and show you exactly how it works.


Welcome, crypto and quantum enthusiasts. Right? Thanks for that quick intro. As you know,


we're going to go over how to properly mine the quantum resistance ledger or QRL on random X.


So we're going to walk you through step-by-step. We're going to do a little bit of system tuning.


We're going to show you the different tools and we're going to do some of the explanations


and we'll have a little bit of fun along the way, hopefully we'll see. All right. So we did a video back


here in April. It's a little bit outdated. So it's about a year old now. So let's start going over the


basics. If you want to skip ahead, we're going to index this out. I hate long,


personally, I just hate long technical explanation videos. If I can't zoom in at it or if I can't


just jump to the pieces that I want to see. So look at the index. We'll break this out into sections


so that it is value add as possible. So first off, okay, first off, what is random X?


So we'll make that the first section here. So random X is the proof of work protocol


that QRL uses a mineral chemo with it just over a year ago. We use it as well.


The whole reason behind random X was to get away from the A6 and the GPU is in just get back


to CPU mining. Kind of gets back to Satashis. One CPU, one miner kind of mantra is kind of how it


originally started. But as you know, GPU is an A6 of, you know, that's always been, it's been a


constant battle between from miners for those could afford to specialize hardware being the A6


or those that could afford the expensive $600 to $1,000 US dollar GPUs or those with a CPU. So


in order to get consensus more distributed and not prefer those who may have a little bit more


capital and invest in mining, I think that this is the biggest reason why random X was chosen


and it's been working quite well so far. So with that being said, some requirements. So for CPU


mining, what the most important thing is going to be is the number of threads that you have


and the frequency of those threads. But in addition to that RAM speed is going to be,


I would say that's secondarily important to the number of threads in the frequency. If you can get


above 21, 33 megahertz for your RAM, which is actually the default DDR4 spec, you will find


pretty, very, very good gains regarding that. If you can get to at least 41, 33, 21, 33 is basically


the baseline default, anything above 21, 33 is basically considered a overclock, but the manufacturer


specifically put out RAM that runs faster than 21, 33 and then they certify it. So it might be


an overclock on the spec, but the manufacturer tests it and makes sure that it works. Those settings


will all be made in your BIOS so you have to find your specific BIOS manual and make sure you tune


it to 21, 66 or 3200 or 4133. And most of the modern BIOS can actually pull the RAM information


from your RAM and tune it for you. You may have to tell it which speed, but that's about it.


Okay, so let's see. Also, huge pages is going to be a big, is going to be a big gain. We'll show you


how to do that. We're going to use XM rig as our minor. Huge pages, I mean, if you're looking at this,


it's like 50%, I can verify that. It's pretty substantial. Also, if you want to tune this,


if this is strictly a mining PC, you can disable hardware prefetching. That's another BIOS setting.


What that is is, see if you will try and guess the answers to the next instructions.


And based on this is random X, the instruction sets are, it is pretty, the instruction calls to the


CPU within random X, the protocol are very randomized. So hardware prefetching becomes more of


just more of a performance liability than it does under normal programs than a value add. So


you can disable that. And regarding cores, we will actually show you how to, and I'll show you how


to disable cores. So you can actually use the machine instead of keeping it redlined all the time.


So, all right, a few notes. I'm not going to go into detail in overclocking. It's a little bit


out of scope for this, but I'm going to point you in the right direction. So first off, if you're


going to do, if you're going to do any overclocking or try to change your frequency,


the, you know, apply different voltages to the number of the difference CCX cores.


First off, make sure you go through, get the latest BIOS for your PC. This, I think this is always


usually good advice. Some will say, some will say that you don't flash your BIOS unless you need to.


I like to stay current. That's just my own personal preference. Also, if you have an AMD card,


AMD card now supports, AMD cards with the latest BIOS updates, now support a SAM function


technology. And what that is, is it increases the bandwidth between your CPU and your memory,


and it gives you a performance gain. Now, this is probably less relevant for GPU mining,


but some people just like to turn their GPU ons just to get the most hash rate. And they're,


you know, they don't care about the electricity cost or live in a low-quality electricity area.


So, and they already have the graphics card. So maybe that makes sense to do that. But, you know,


run the latest BIOS, just be careful when you apply it, obviously. Get the latest drivers.


Going to, whether you're not your AMD or Nvidia, that will change the settings that you can


figure in that, config that JSON file for XM rig, we'll go over that.


And these are really good, honestly, AMD is just a really good value. I used Intel for a long time,


but AMD is really picking up speeding. They've really got a lot of market share because they've


been driving value ad return in respect of the voltage, not just costs, but also performance.


So, the RX6800 is one of, we'll show you a little bit of performance when you can get on that.


And, you know, run the latest drivers. If you want to do some overclocking,


you want to keep it easy. This is the easiest way to do is drag and center. You can download this


in your BIOS. None of this is tech, you know, none of this overclocking is technical advice. These are


observations that I've made. Set your defaults for your CPU in your BIOS. Run drag and center.


And, you can see up here, it allows you that there's different performance profiles you can do


extreme performance. It'll take care of, it'll take care of tweaking the frequency and the voltages


of your CPU for you without you having to have any advanced knowledge of overclocking. If you


want to do a little bit more in depth, get a little bit more specific because all CPUs are not


created equal. Some can be run faster than others. You can download this utility called clock


tuner, which is very popular among the AMD community. It was written by one Isthmus. I think I'm


pronouncing that correctly. He's a Russian developer. Very talented as far as getting into really


the, into the weeds on, as far as CPU is in memory. So, you can use this. This will help you find


the maximum settings for your CPU if you were inclined to do so. If you run through and you do


overclock your CPU and do any of that, it's always good to do a memory stress test. So, this is


the utility I've used in the past. It will stress test your CPU. If you are using the drag and one,


the drag and the drag and overclock are only boots, only comes into effect after you boot into


your operating system for Windows. So, that probably won't affect this because this is a


bootable flash drive and it won't be testing the settings from MSI Dragon because you're not


booted into the OS you're booted into their proprietary BIOS. So, that's about random X. That's


about how to go about tuning your system. For performance, you need the performance reasons.


The frequency of the CPUs, the number of the cores in the DDR speed for your memory. Those are


probably the top three components that will give you the greatest returns on mining with random


X. So, that's what I'm going to do. Let's go to the next section. All right. So, let's go over


how to install the miner and also how to actually make it run. So, first off,


XM rig is a good mining application. I've used it since Genesis on QRL. So, back then,


back then, the proof of work consensus mechanism was a crypto night B2. So, what you want to do is


just come down here, you go to this address, you know, go to this URL up here and we're going to take


the GCC release of that. Now, Chrome actually blocks this. So, what you'll probably want to do


is open up Microsoft, Microsoft Edge. Go back in here, copy and paste that and we'll go in here


and we will try to redone it again because that's automatically blocked by Chrome.


All right. So, here's the other thing. You can see the right up in here, we have to extract


this file. This is RarLabs that I have running here. But before we even extract it, we really


have to check our antivirus software. So, if you need to do that, we'll go here and I'm going to


give you a few things that you're probably going to need to do. Now, I'm running Norton 360.


Here's a few things. Antivirus. Wherever you download this too, you're going to have to


set an exclusion for that area because everything in semantic Norton is a mining software is


considered to be risk. So, it will pick up on the signatures of that and it will just automatically


delete it. So, if you go to configure and you can see that I'm going to put, I have downloads put


in there. I also went some wild dab a little bit of a nice hashing or you know, nice hash mining.


So, make sure you're going to downloads. If that's where you're going to download a two and then


you can actually extract it. So, we'll extract that in a moment. One of the other things you're


going to need to do is go into your firewall and you're going to have to trust certain devices.


Now, I picked this. This is just a random pool that we're going to mine to because that's what I


had. I picked it randomly. I picked something to be able to show us how to do this.


And what you have to do is add them into the device trust because the antivirus software will


actually do packet inspection on the way out. Even if the program is on your PC it will inspect


the traffic and recognize the signature of crypto traffic quite easily. So, you need to trust


the device so that it knows that that's allowed. If you trust device, make sure you do this IPS


exclusion. That stands for Intrusion Protection System. It's IDS, IPS Intrusion Protection System.


You need to check that as well. Now, there was a bug up until about two weeks ago


up until around April 1st in which you would check this and you would click OK and it would


not stay checked. As far as I can tell that bug has been fixed. So, you should be able to do that now.


You also need to go under Program Control and if your app gets blocked under here, you'll have to


set it to... This has a tendency to sometimes block and end up here. So, you'll want to make sure


you allow it here. Another thing is there is some intermittent problems with the intrusion


and browser protection for Norton antivirus. Even if you have the IPS selected, like we were


talking in the firewall earlier, sometimes that's not even good enough. You can try turning this


off. It's not a recommended security session because that's what's analyzing packet signatures


as they come in to make sure that your miner isn't compromised. But you may have to experiment


with this a little bit. I've had mixed results. I'll leave it at that. All right. So, I'm just


going to turn that off just for the time being. I don't recommend that as a permanent setting.


All right. So, we have our XM rig here. Let's do this. We're just going to extract it.


We're going here, going here. And here is our XM rig software. So, 6.11.2, that's the latest


version as of right now. So, now that we've covered how to download it and how to prepare it for


your antivirus software, next step is let's get it configured in it. All right. So, we've got our


XM rig here, what you're going to want to do is first thing, let's take a look at this config.json file.


All right. So, we'll go over here. And I'm going to explain the different. I'll explain the


relevant sections in here. Okay. So, we're going to be mining random X. These are all the default


settings. You definitely going to want your CPU Naval is true and you're going to want huge page


support as being true. Those are the two most important settings. If you want to run your video card,


you would change all you would do would be change changes to true, just like that. And that would


run your AMD video card. If you have a novidia video card, run the CUDA boot of protocol, you would


change that to true. If you had both, you might change both through, like I said, whoops. Like I said,


in an earlier earlier in the video, though, graphics GPU mining is not efficient on random X.


So, what you want to do is scroll down here. And this is all right here is all of the important


information that you're going to need to be put in. So, we're going to walk through putting in


the, specifically what you need to do for random X and how to configure that. And I've got


this on my other screen over here. So, I'm going to cheat just a little bit. Okay. So, for


Elgo, you're going to want to do RX. Actually, I'll just copy this. All right, for Elgo, you're going


to want it. It's going to equal that. Coin stays as null. URL, as I mentioned before, we're going


to use mining ocean. And you can actually copy these settings exactly as I have it. While it


address, hmm, that seems strange. It seems like we need to create a temporary while it address.


So, let's do that.


Okay. We're going to just create a quick wallet here. Just going to dump in some


passphrase and create a wallet. Yes, as you know, as in previous videos, the next details on this


page are very important to never lose these. Do not lose this. And do not lose this. If I had


actually made the previous screen an actual password rather than just copying and pasting random


screen text, I could actually save the secure wallet file. And that would be the password that I


could save a JSON file. And I would be able to open my wallet with that JSON file. But irrespective of that,


let's do, yes, of course, we didn't save it like we're supposed to. So,


do this. Banana phrase and open it up. All right, here is my URL public address. So, we're going to


copy and paste that public address. What I'm going to do is I'm going to put it right in here.


This is the address that I will be mining to. Password can stay as x or you can change it to your


rig name. My computer's name is, I don't know why I call it that. That's just what it is.


And rig. No, nice hash files, right, right, right, TLS. Everything else should be fine.


All right, that should work. Let's save that. Let's give that a test.


I'm actually going to keep this file open over here. You know, explain why in a little bit.


When you run xmreg for the first time, run it as admin. There are compatibility issues


and performance issues if you don't do it this way. So, run it as admin and yes.


And we are mining.


I can hear my CPU spinning up over there as it's heating up. Now, when you're in here, you can


click H to get a hash rate. Right here, we're getting 13, 608 hashes per second.


And I see how many cores we're using and all the cores. Yeah, I don't have this machine tuned


perfectly for this right now. To give you some performance metrics on an AMD 3900x, you'd get


about 13,000 hashes per second, which is where I'm right now. This is a 3950x. I've gotten up to


17,500 hashes. Overclocked everything tuned in dialed in perfectly. You can get another 4,000


hashes. So, we were talking earlier, we were saying that GPU is not very effective in mining,


right? Let's just test that. So, let's go into, this is our config.json file. It's the same one


that we had opened earlier. XM rate will actually allow you to make changes on the fly.


So, I just changed its underlying config file. And if you see here, it's on my video cards. Okay.


Okay. So, let's wait till it. Let's wait till my video cards actually spin up and do something.


Okay, so you see this is an RX 6800. Look at the hash rate compared to each one of these CPU cores.


For example, if I go into here, go into task manager, I'll go into performance,


I'll go into CPU. You know, this is each, this is each a core, right? 16 physical cores, 32 logical


cores. Of those 32 logical cores, I'm only getting 236 hashes per second. And each one of these


cores is giving me 3, 4. Usually, if I did tune, I can get around 4, 50 or so. So, as you can see,


this is not, this is not made for GPUs, but it does work very well for CPUs. So, what I'm going to do


is I'm going to cancel that. Again, that's for Nvidia. Excuse me. This is for AMD. If you have


an Nvidia card, you would change that to true. And you can see on here that the HM, XM rate


automatically took my settings and make changes on the fly. It doesn't keep this file as in an


open rights status. It just must be monitoring that on the backend every, you know, X number,


S seconds to check for any configuration changes. Now, one of the questions in the discord was,


how do I test to see if actually mining? But how do I know that this is actually working?


So, let's do this. We're going to go. We're doing mining, Ocean. On this particular show,


your mining history. As soon as it comes up. Okay. So, what we have here is we named our,


if you remember, we renamed our PC Big Bertha. We generated a new QRL wallet address.


And we can see that it's down here. It is mining. If I redo screen, it actually, that, that


hashrate should be going up at some point. Okay. It will eventually get pretty close to this


between 11 and 13,000 hashes per second. So, that's how you set that up in a Windows


environment. That's step by step. This is how you control if you're mining. This is how you can see


if you're mining, you go to this page. And in this interface, this GUI interface is really,


really close to all the, all the other GUI interfaces. So, one other thing, if you do go into


settings here, you can type in your miner IP address and then change the default from point five


Quanta for every time that it pays out to whatever you want. So, that's it. If you have any


other questions on mining, feel free to jump into our lively discord community. There is a specific


random x mining section in there. We'll put the links below. Until then, until our next video, happy mining.


Why Do We Need Post Quantum Security - E07

Welcome back everyone to the official Quantum Resistant Ledger channel, your video portal


in the Pulse Quantum Digital Asset Security.


So since the successful launch of QRL 2.0, we've been talking a lot about multi-sate,


the ephemeral messaging, random X, proof of work, proof of stake, XYZ, L-M-N-O-P, etc., etc.


We focused a lot on new material, new features, walk-throughs and other really great things


that are happening with this project.


I was giving this some thought and I think it makes us take a technical material breather


and circle back a little bit to who we are, what we're doing so that new comforts to the


project can get caught up to speed.


So if you're new to the QRL, you want to know what it is, you want to know what we do,


and why we do it, this video is written just for you.


It wouldn't be a good start without first talking about the team behind the project.


So a little summary on that.


We're made up of a bunch of forward thinking, technology and enthusiasts across the world,


the very professional technical backgrounds and disciplines.


Despite any difference in areas of expertise, one thing in common is that we're all Quantum


Computer Optimists that believe we are witnessing one of the greatest, most technological


revolutions since the television, the personal computer, the internet, the smartphone, pick.


If you're familiar with what Quantum Computing is, there's a lot of information and equally


as much misinformation online about it.


YouTube is a good place to start.


So in the near future, Quantum Computer will play the role of a bit of a double agent,


having the ability to both strengthen some industries and disrupt others.


It's fairly well accepted that Quantum Computer have use cases in molecular simulation


which can lead to new drug discoveries.


Scenario simulations such as evaluating risk, pricing, things that might be beneficial


to financial markets, optimization advantages, such as supply to change management and logistics.


And there's some fringe use cases that people talk about in respective to artificial


intelligence.


And of course, there's a little thing called factorization which leads us into the next


topic.


So the 1970s brought us a lot of interesting things that helped define the decade, Star Wars,


Pong, Sutter Night Live and the movie Jaws.


One thing in particular that stood the test of time, Star Wars has stood the test of time


as well.


It's something known as asymmetric cryptography which today is as important as the internal


combustion or electric lighting but as invisible to society yet equally as it indispensable


as, for example, radio waves.


Starting in the 1970s, all modern public-private key cryptography, the kind that secures


your credit card on the web, secures your smartphone, encrypts your bank transactions, and


almost certainly all of the cryptocurrencies in your portfolio rely on something called factorization


to encrypt it.


Factorization, simply put, is breaking down a number into smaller numbers that when multiplied


together, give you that original number.


For example, multiplying 4,289 with 3,559 is easy to do and will give you a result


of 15,264,551.


But doing this in reverse order is much more difficult.


Now suppose you want to find the two prime numbers that when multiplied together equal


the very large number.


As this number increases, this becomes exponentially more difficult as there is no classical


way to efficiently solve this problem and therefore this became the basis of all modern


public-private key cryptography, including Bitcoin.


So enter the quantum computer.


Instead of approaching the problem by brute force, forcing your way through on a classical


computer with a slide-chamber, quantum computers have the ability to use nature itself in


a strange world of subatomic phenomena to try multiple combinations to get the solution


all at the same time.


This simple advantage is what makes the technology so disruptive.


So at the time of this article, there is two commercial quantum computers available,


one by B.M., and one by D. Wave.


These can be purchased and are being purchased by large organizations.


So how do quantum computers resolve this factorization issue?


In 1994, Peter Shor of AT&T Bell Labs, in New Jersey, discovered an algorithm that allows


for polynomial time in a geofactorization.


This means that a sufficiently powerful quantum computer would be able to theoretically


calculate a private key from a public key, allowing effortless decryption of whatever was


secured by that private key.


In the case of Bitcoin, this would translate the access to the complete wallet.


This also applies to almost all other altcoins in the marketplace today.


This algorithm became known as Shor's algorithm, and for a while remained a curiosity in


the back of cryptographers everywhere.


But fast forward in 2020, while Shor's isn't the only algorithm available to solve this


problem, it is the most well-known.


Over time, the question of quantum computing using Chore algorithm or one of its variants


will become cryptographically disruptive.


Has evolved from being just theoretical, to possible, to demonstratable.


So where does the Q-reliphenation fit into all of this?


First off, we believe that blockchain is a technology that's here to stay.


It's already disrupting industries across the world, replacing centralized organizations,


often with high overhead, man-hours and processes with computer algorithms.


Progress in the field of quantum computers is accelerating.


A quick comparison between Moore's Law and their proposed Neven's Law might give a little


bit of context here.


Some of technology's greatest leaders have two things in common.


Pioneering solutions to problems that people aren't quite aware of yet by connecting the dots


and inspiring innovation by leading by example.


This is why the Team at Q-rel created the first industrial grade, Pulse Quantum Secure,


NAST Draft Recommended, Open Source, third-party audited cryptocurrency, second, rebuilding


an entire ecosystem on top of our blockchain with projects like Enclave, which will allow


the ability to pulse quantum secure other cryptocurrencies like Ethereum.


We've built in a femoral messaging stub layer, which uses lattice transactions, which


will allow third parties to build Pulse Quantum Secure communication applications on top of


the blockchain as well.


We've added multi-signature wallet support, which can improve custody issues, meaning


that voting mechanism controls the wallet, which can be owned by a more than one person,


referred to as a signatory.


We also want to implement support for the legislative of hardware wallets so that your private


key can be stored as securely as possible.


And at the time of this YouTube video, we are the most profitable coin to be mined with


a general purpose CPU, just slightly bobble-minute scenario.


Okay, so a rich set of features.


Check.


Third-party audited, provably secure industrial grade protection, open source, that's current


tech and future tech secure.


But what about the quantum thread?


How real is this risk?


Are we actually talking about a real existential threat?


And if so, why haven't I heard much about it?


In the next video, I'm going to go over and build a case for why the future is quantum,


the threat to modern encryption and why QRL provides the ultimate hedge against those


looking to secure their digital assets against technology progresses.


Thank you very much.


Which Is Colder? COVID-19 / CORONA Vaccine? Or a Quantum Computer?

What is up everybody and welcome back to another episode of the Quantum Resistant Ledger


Channel.


I am Ryan your co-host and I am joined here by a strike, the director of Outreach here


at the Corel strike.


It's good to have you here.


What's going on?


You're doing great.


Looking forward to some more content that we're trying to put out.


Good day.


Awesome.


Well for this video today, whether you are QRL OG, one of the originals or if you're


newer to the QRL channel, ensure this is your video portal for everything, post-quantum


digital asset security.


In today's video we're going to be diving into kind of the temperature of quantum computers.


That's kind of the realm of today's video, but now coming videos we talk all things


QRL, but we also talk about other popular areas of crypto, whether it's Bitcoin, whether


it's just talking about progress of the industry as a whole or on a more micro level.


But in today's video, I want to ask you a few questions about kind of a hot topic that


all of us are probably being made aware of based on a new cycle.


And that is we're hearing about Pfizer and Moderna, which are these vaccine companies.


And they've been all over the news of saying, hey, the Pfizer vaccines got to be at


negative such and such degrees.


And the Moderna one can be a little bit warmer at something negative degrees.


I don't know if I think one was at negative 80, maybe the other is at 30 or 40.


But I wanted to ask you, since quantum computers need to be in a cold environment, how


cold do quantum computers need to be in comparison to these vaccines?


Can you dive into how cold they need to be?


Yeah, it was I was looking this up the other day.


I think it was the two numbers were in egg 70 and nag, nag 20 Celsius on the scale.


And that was I think that's something to do with preventing the enzymes from breaking down.


But respect of the quantum computers, like many things in life, everything is relative.


There's cold.


It's a cold day.


There's colder than there's really cold.


And then there's just really, really cold.


And when you start talking about the scale, the degree of coldness, when you're talking


about a quantum computer, is you're talking about a controlled system or environment.


You can picture essentially a very large enclosure to where all energy has been removed


from that system.


And it's insulated and kept cold in such a way that it's kept at fractions of a degree


above absolute zero, absolute zero, meaning that there's no more energy that can be taken


out of the system.


Its energy is zero is zilch.


They're very, very much colder.


Yeah.


What are the biggest, first off, what are the biggest challenges with getting quantum


computers this cold?


And then also, who are a few of maybe leaders in the space where you think, hey, they're


actually making really good progress?


I know it's easy to use this if every other week or every other month, there's some


announcement from Honeywell or IBM or one of the big players and, hey, they're making big


progress or maybe it's I on Q, where they're saying we're going to get to such


and such cubits by now that who are a few players in the space or that you're kind of


our maybe are impressing you or who maybe you think, okay, they're actually making really


good progress based on your knowledge of it.


Sure.


So there's a lot of, there's a few major players in the space.


I mean, a prefix with my own personal opinion is that quantum being is a bit, I think I've


said before, a bit like in iceberg.


I mean, there's an analogy.


The progress that we see in the news in the papers coming out, that's that's that's


that's publicly visible the top of the expert.


There's there's a lot of strong indicators and nothing concrete, but there's certainly


a lot of news that is proprietary secret that is underneath the surface that you can't


see.


But as far as commercial leaders in the space, we've got a bunch of we've got idea.


They're a leader.


We've got Honeywell.


We've got I on Q as you mentioned.


We've got D wave.


They've been the longest player in the space with their quantum and kneeling machines.


The rest of the machines are mostly based on trapped ion machines.


And there's also a type of quantum computer that it called a photonic quantum computer,


which runs using essentially stream of light photons, which has the advantage of being


able to run closer to room temperatures.


So the technology behind the refrigeration is actually really, really, really, it's just


incredible, honestly.


Delucian refrigerators being able to reach that level of temperature is incredibly


challenging.


The whole goal behind that is to be able to remove all the energy from within this, you


can just think of it as a really large tharness.


And you want to be able to remove all that energy so that none of the what people on the


field will call systemic noise, which is stray electromagnetic radiation, the fault


crimes or anything, anything that might come into contact with that cubit.


You have to keep away because if something comes into contact with it, any matter, energy,


anything, it will collapse that wave function of that cubit.


Essentially, it's like the same thing as if your windows machine were to lose.


That's all sensitive these are.


So there's a lot of progress that still needs to be made, but respective to your other


question as far as what the latest news, other tremendous news that it's coming on.


If you look at where we used to be just a few years and over where we are now, this is


a scale that it's a chart, it looks like this, where the amount of news, the amount of research


and the amount of funding being put in the accomplishments being made and the discovery


being made, it's really quite workable.


Yeah, and it's not just private money being put into, there's also money from the public


sector being put in all sorts of places, but public in government.


Yeah.


And there's lots of government funding to.


I don't think that's like where we don't.


I don't think I've seen any announcements from, you know, from government or nations


on what their progress is.


I don't see that that doesn't show up, you know, in government, the funding is one of


our biggest, you know, is one of the is a huge area of research.


That's means a big, a big unknown.


What's happening there?


It's an interesting question.


Yeah, so speaking of things that take a while to find out, or to find out what the answer


of it is and speaking of those would be the NIST announcements recently of going from


draft recommended to official along with LMS and just kind of their announcement of


moving forward with the Quantum Secure Hashbase 6-Game with XMSS.


And for a lot of people watching this, they're going to know what that is, but for the people


that maybe don't, or if just the importance of this in general, this is not something that's


just, hey, it happened type thing.


This is kind of a foresight a long time ago and it played out, you know, based on getting


the exact card right of which way to move forward.


I think this is big news.


So can you just cover just for a minute or two, just kind of what the NIST announcement


means and for the QRL and just in general for the industry?


Certainly.


So back in 2016, which is like three lifetimes ago, because we know the triple-land.


Things move fast and crypto-land, right?


So back in 2016, the NAST would have been asked for the students of standards and technology


for the United States.


They put out this announcement requesting the one, they wanted nominations for public key


post-quantum cryptographic algorithms, which is basically saying, okay, we're listening,


guys, whether you're coming from private, public sector government, it doesn't matter.


Send us your ideas on how we can take public key cryptography, which is asymmetric, you know,


asymmetric cryptographic functions, things that secure your website traffic, your credit


card numbers, any time that you have a public key and private key, you know, that type,


gets hundreds of your ideas, we're willing to list and this is complex topic, we're


willing to list them.


So at that time, there was like 60 or 70 submissions that went through.


And after three or four phases, some of them were broken, flat-all broken, some of them


were cracked, some of them didn't meet quality tests.


When I got to give credit to Peter on this, somehow he ran through this in his head and


there may have been other people involved, you know, I wasn't in the meeting, I wasn't


there.


Which ended up going with XMSS and up until just, I think it's been a month or two now,


up until a month or two, XMSS has gone from draft recommended state to an official recommendation


for post-quantum, secure public, you know, hash-based functions.


So there were a lot of options.


That was just if you're just, if all things being equal, if you're just trying to pick one,


that's like a three or four percent chance.


Yeah, get her nailed it.


There's some sort of synergy there that's able to see what's coming.


And I've talked about this before just being able to connect those dots.


I thought that was great intuition.


Yeah.


No, thanks for diving into that for a few minutes and hopping on the phone with us to talk


about that for a few.


What we're going to be doing strike or what I'd like to be doing in an upcoming video


or two, not only do I want to dive into kind of some misconceptions with Bitcoin hard


fork.


I know I'd have some strong opinions on that.


But we just myself and the favorite topic of mine.


And just based on internal conversations we're having amongst the team, there's a lot of news


going on just within the crypto industry in general, whether it be stuff that we're doing


at the QRL progress that we're working on or it's just, you know, Bitcoin in general


of, you know, there's so much interest in there in that area.


But one thing I wanted to mention is if you haven't already seen it, the QRL, our new


website has got a complete haircut makeover.


So if you haven't already checked it out, make sure that you go to the qRL.org.


Not.com.org.


We are not the Queensland rugby league.


It is the first results when you search on Google.


Or if you just type it in to your URL, but in upcoming videos, we're going to be diving


in, like I said, I heard they're good though.


Yeah.


But we're going to be diving into, you know, misconceptions on the Bitcoin hard fork, a Bitcoin


and then progress we're doing internally on the team.


But I appreciate you chatting with us.


Strike chat with us.


Always morning.


And we will see you in the next video.


And until then, strike have a great rest of the day.


Good to see you.


You want to watch as well.


Thank you so much.


Bye bye.


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other techniques.


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What do I need to know?


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hardware.


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term strategy.


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