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Kardashev scale Quantum Computing for Bitcoin Mining

Pierre-Luc Dallaire-Demers

Year

2026

Journal

arXiv preprint

DOI

arXiv:2603.25519

arXiv

2603.25519

Bitcoin already faces a quantum threat through Shor attacks on elliptic-curve signatures. This paper isolates the other component that public discussion often conflates with it: mining. Grover's algorithm halves the exponent of brute-force search, promising a quadratic edge to any quantum miner of Bitcoin. Exactly how large that edge grows depends on fault-tolerant hardware. No prior study has costed that hardware end to end. We build an open-source estimator that sweeps the full attack surface: reversible oracles for double-SHA-256 mining and RIPEMD-based address preimages, surface-code factory sizing, fleet logistics under Nakamoto-consensus timing, and Kardashev-scale energy accounting. A parametric sweep over difficulty bits b, runtime caps, and target success probabilities reveals a sharp transition. At the most favourable partial-preimage setting (b = 32, 2^224 marked states), a superconducting surface-code fleet still requires about 10^8 physical qubits and about 10^4 MW. That load is comparable to a large national grid. Tightening to Bitcoin's January 2025 mainnet difficulty (b about 79) explodes the bill to about 10^23 qubits and about 10^25 W, approaching the Kardashev Type II threshold. These numbers settle a narrower question than "Is Bitcoin quantum-secure?" Once Grover mining is lifted from asymptotic query counts to fault-tolerant physical cost, practical quantum mining collapses under oracle, distillation, and fleet overhead. To push mining into non-trivial consensus effects, one must invoke astronomical quantum fleets operating at energy scales that lie far above present-day civilization.

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Geometry and Entanglement of Super-Qubit Quantum States

Oktay K. Pashaev, Aygul Kocak

Year

2024

Journal

arXiv preprint

DOI

arXiv:2410.04361

arXiv

2410.04361

We introduce the super-qubit quantum state, determined by superposition of the zero and the one super-particle states, which can be represented by points on the super-Bloch sphere. In contrast to the one qubit case, the one super-particle state is characterized by points in extended complex plain, equivalent to another super-Bloch sphere. Then, geometrically, the super-qubit quantum state is represented by two unit spheres, or the direct product of two Bloch spheres. By using the displacement operator, acting on the super-qubit state as the reference state, we construct the super-coherent states, becoming eigenstates of the super-annihilation operator, and characterized by three complex numbers, the displacement parameter and stereographic projections of two super-Bloch spheres. The states are fermion-boson entangled, and the concurrence of states is the product of two concurrences, corresponding to two Bloch spheres. We show geometrical meaning of concurrence as distance from point-state on the sphere to vertical axes - the radius of circle at horizontal plane through the point-state. Then, probabilities of collapse to the north pole state and to the south pole state are equal to half-distances from vertical coordinate of the state to corresponding points at the poles. For complimentary fermion number operator, we get the flipped super-qubit state and corresponding super-coherent state, as eigenstate of transposed super-annihilation operator. The infinite set of Fibonacci oscillating circles in complex plain, and corresponding set of quantum states with uncertainty relations as the ratio of two Fibonacci numbers, and in the limit at infinity becoming the Golden Ratio uncertainty, is derived.

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