At a customer I joked; If you want to write a Bitcoin Miner on a Quantum Computer, VSTS can help you with that. So a lightning session about the proof of the pudding.

3. "Any Language, Any Platform"

4. Bitcoin Miner

5. Quantum Computer

7. Bitcoin mining

8. Bitcoin Mining 101
Data NONCE

9. Bitcoin Mining 101
SHA 256
SHA 256
Data NONCE
10010100100101001001010010010101..

10. Bitcoin Mining 101
SHA 256
SHA 256
Data NONCE + 1
00000000000101001001010010010101..OOOOOOOOOOOOO

11. New plan

12. New plan
Qubit can take value |0>, |1>, or both at once,
a phenomenon known as superposition

14. “Quantum Accelerator card”

15. Microsoft Q#

16. Microsoft Q# (Operators)

17. Microsoft Q# (Driver)

18. Microsoft Q# (Emulated Run)

19. Microsoft Q# (Unit Test)

20. Microsoft Q# (VSTS Build)

21. Microsoft Q# (VSTS Test)

22. Production (IBM Q)

23. Production (Work in progress)

24. Production (Work in progress)

25. Work in progress

26. Bitcoin Mining 101
SHA 256
SHA 256
Data NONCE + 1
00000000000101001001010010010101..OOOOOOOOOOOOO

27. SHA 256
A B C D E F G H
KT
WT
CH
∑1
E
Maj
A
∑2
A => B, C => D, F => G, G => H
x64
32 bits

28. Reduced Adder
A B
!"#$%&
Carry Sum
x1
1 bit

29. Quantum Adder
A B
!"#$%&
Carry Sum
Waste

30. Quantum Adder

31. Adder Algorithm
A B
!"#$%&
0 ? 0 ?
Waste |0>

32. Inverted Adder Algorithm
A B
!"#$%&
0 ? 0 ?
Waste
|0> |0>
!"#$%&
Super
Position
A B
|0> Waste
SHOR

33. Reverse Adder

34. Reverse Adder

35. Reverse Adder
This is why you need to add
Grover

36. Reversing on the real device

37. SHA 256
A B C D E F G H
KT
WT
CH
∑1
E
Maj
A
∑2
A => B, C => D, F => G, G => H
x64
32 bits
Rinse and repeat

38. "Any Language, Any Platform"

39. Questions ?

40. Dirty Adder (Not Reduced)

41. Tolifo Gate

42. Adder (Not Reduced)