Google just released a new research paper, and it could be a big deal for Bitcoin and online security. Their quantum research has found that it might take 20 times less power and effort for a quantum computer to break RSA encryption – the technology that protects things like bank accounts and Bitcoin wallets – than experts thought earlier. the breakthrough has come from two places: better algorithms and smarter error correction. Researchers have made two big improvements in how quantum computers handle encryption. The first is that they have managed to make the modular exponentiations twice as fast. Then, they have also packed more useful data into the same space to improve error correction. However, the security implications are of a much serious nature. RSA and similar systems go against the global secure communications, ranging from banking to digital signatures.