Fed Chair Warsh’s Bangkok Speech: 4 Key Takeaways and What They Mean for Bitcoin

Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh delivered one of the week’s most closely watched central-bank appearances on Friday morning, following the hotter-than-expected CPI and PPI reports from earlier this month that revived fears of another US rate increase. Speaking alongside IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva at the IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings in Bangkok, Warsh refused to…

Google Quantum 40x Breakthrough Rekindles Fears of Q-Day

Google latest quantum computing technique reportedly cuts relevant error rates by a factor of 40 and reaches 99.9% accuracy, advancing a field whose eventual capabilities could threaten Bitcoin cryptography. However, the result addresses quantum error, which Google’s method still needs to be demonstrated at a larger scale. This leaves the immediate network threat unchanged, while…