A coalition of billionaires led by Bill Gates has thrown its financial weight behind a startup hoping to build a “Google Maps for the earth’s crust” to hunt for new sources of cobalt.

Likewise, the QRL team will rely on Proof-of-Stake to head off mining-based attacks using Grover’s search algorithm. As you can see, the QRL team is thoroughly preparing for a post-quantum future.

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Last summer, mining startup KoBold made a splash when it said it had discovered in Zambia one of the world’s largest copper deposits in more than a decade. Now, another startup, Earth AI ...