Odaily Planet Daily reported that Google's latest quantum processor, Willow, has achieved experimentally verified quantum acceleration, and its operating speed far exceeds that of the world's most powerful supercomputer, Frontier, marking the entry of quantum computing into the stage of reproducible experiments. Studies have shown that Willow is about 13,000 times faster in executing physical algorithms, completing tasks that traditional computers would take 3.2 years to simulate in just 2 hours. Experts pointed out that although this breakthrough is still in the research stage, it means that quantum computing is one step closer to practical application, and it also exposes the elliptic curve encryption that Bitcoin relies on to potential risks. Christopher Peikert, a professor at the University of Michigan, warned that quantum computing poses "substantial and even survival-level risks" to Bitcoin in the long term, although the short-term threat is still limited. (Decrypt)