content: Does the massive drop in Bitcoin yesterday have to do with Google announcement that they've "....Claims 'Quantum Supremacy' Not sure where to put this thread since this is tech /conspiracy but I thought I ask the technical minded here. CONTEXT: https://fortune.com/2019/09/20/google-claims-quantum-supremacy/ "While our processor takes about 200 seconds to sample one instance of the quantum circuit 1 million times, a state-of-the-art supercomputer would require approximately 10,000 years to perform the equivalent task," the researchers said." https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-price-crash-experts-saying-204842599.html For the last 24 hours, the world’s number one cryptocurrency by market cap has been traversing through the mid-$7,000 per coin range, after dropping nearly $800 during the early morning hours yesterday.  First off, I am no expert of tech and bitcoin, but since I have a healthy paranoia of anything Google, in other words, I have ZERO trust in Goog to be a good decent company, why would these past two events NOT BE fake?  So the present media push here is that Goog now has a quantum computing system, then suddenly, Bitcoin crashed. Now, no one is saying it, or I have yet to see anyone say it, but Google = Quantum computing = cracked the Bitcoin ledger decentralised system = massive drop = holders of Bitcoin pulled out fast.  So my question is can the Bitcoin blockchain be cracked as I was led to believe that it could't. Quantum mechanics is over my head on this.  If you don't know how bitcoin works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSo_EIwHSd4 But if the ledger is spread to thousands of places around the world, how can it be cracked? I just think it's all bullshit and Goog is playing games again for whatever geo political reason, but who knows, it could be real, and if it is real, then that would signal blockchains don't work anymore, and hence no one will play cryptos too. EDIT: Just found this article:  President Xi Says China Should ‘Seize Opportunity’ to Adopt Blockchain https://www.coindesk.com/president-xi-says-china-should-seize-opportunity-to-adopt-blockchain This raises the hair up on my neckline even more. Goog has worked with China or is it vice versa before. Maybe Goog = China.  So what if they do have quantum computing and now they are ready for a marketing push to sell cryptos to the masses, and in the background control it like the fiat system we have today?