Ask HN: Predictions for 2021?

Re:Ask HN: Predictions for 2021? by b-g-m on Friday January 01, 2021 @01:31PM (#25605388)

To join many Bitcoin based peernetworks - you first contact one of the DNS seeds. Which is traceable by LEO. Ethereum has their own DNS and other security protocols which bypass this problem - which would be attractive to those who use cryptocurrency to avoid LEO.

Quantum internet is different than QKD. The best analogy I can give is its like the difference between Morse code and the internet. Things like quantum teleportation, superdense coding and distributed quantum computing through a quantum internet will be revolutionary.

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Re:Ask HN: Predictions for 2021? by majewsky on Friday January 01, 2021 @05:56PM (#25608149)

Since I had to look it up: LEO = Law Enforcement Officer(s) in this context.

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Re:Ask HN: Predictions for 2021? by FridgeSeal on Friday January 01, 2021 @06:26PM (#25608430)

Thanks for that, I initially read it as “Low Earth Orbit” which didn’t make much sense.

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Re:Ask HN: Predictions for 2021? by bawolff on Friday January 01, 2021 @03:43PM (#25606853)

> Things like quantum teleportation, superdense coding and distributed quantum computing through a quantum internet will be revolutionary.

Why?

> quantum teleportation

What is the practical near term (next 10 years) applications? I can't think of any.

> superdense coding

Somewhat better compression is hardly a killer app, especially given the costs imvolved.

> distributed quantum computing

Need actual quantum computers before you can have that (definitely more than 10 years away imo). I'm also a bit unclear as to how applicable quantum algorithms are to parallelization in distributed machines.

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