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qBitTensor Labs Live — September 3, 2026

Sep 3, 2026

Emission on both subnets was unilaterally paused this week via the root key after an AI-driven review — so the team spends the episode setting the record straight: the treasury wallet design the validators directed them to, the quantum jobs SN48 pays for in real US dollars, and the virtuous-cycle tokenomics the shutdown accidentally spotlighted; plus Xdev takes back-to-back Breaking RSA milestones, RSA-512 launches with a symbolic $250,000 RSA-1024 bounty alongside it, web submissions go live paid with Open Quantum credits, the Open Quantum Insights report draws a Rigetti repost, unprecedentedly thorough Quantum Insider coverage, and downloads from Dell and Microsoft, an updated white paper lands with a DOI, every winning solution is open-sourced under AGPL in the new Breaking RSA Solutions repo, and OpenRouter's $7.5B sale to Stripe shows exactly what Open Quantum could become.

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qBitTensor Labs Live — August 13, 2026

Aug 13, 2026

Enigma's milestone prizes climb in lockstep to $20,000 each as the total prize pool tops $600,000, web submissions paid with Open Quantum credits are just weeks away, a Bitcast campaign racks up 131 tweets and 90,000 views, an independent researcher publishes two papers run on Rigetti's Cepheus through Open Quantum, automated email campaigns post a 41% open rate, a free compute program launches for quantum professors, an Open Quantum MCP server lands on PyPI, Root Reborn's first week leaves most unclaimed reward baskets on the table, and Anthropic's Claude breaks the Hawk PQC candidate — knocking it out of NIST standardization.

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qBitTensor Labs Live — July 23, 2026

Jul 23, 2026

BlueQubit CTO Hayk joins the show as Enigma's prize pools climb to $15,000 with milestone four unsolved on Breaking RSA and difficulty three on Hardening Quantum Proof. New rules require every submission to be open source, a mainnet gas bug briefly freezes the treasury wallets, Open Quantum Edge moves into the data center at the metal, a qBraid partnership puts Open Quantum in front of 30,000 users, two Bittensor subnets fall to the Sapphire Sleet hackers, Breaking RSA heads to DEF CON's Quantum Village, and a Chinese preprint cuts the logical qubits needed to break ECC to 835.

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qBitTensor Labs Live — July 2, 2026

Jul 2, 2026

One month into Enigma's launch and nearly a year into qBitTensor Labs. Breaking RSA races from 360 to 480 bits -- a 460-bit key cracked in 3.9 hours with a GPU number-field sieve -- while Hardening Quantum Proof miners build on each other's solutions. Web submissions move to an Open Quantum compute-credit model, PennyLane lands on SN48, QuEra claims fault tolerance by 2028 out of Quantum.Tech Boston, and a wave of Bittensor emission changes reshapes the network.

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Enigma: From Vision to Reality

Jun 11, 2026

Enigma is now live on Bittensor's Subnet 63 — a decentralized platform that turns critical technological vulnerabilities into open, incentivized challenges, launching with $10k+ bounties for each milestone on the Breaking RSA and Hardening Quantum Proof Challenges.

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qBitTensor Labs Live — June 4, 2026

Jun 4, 2026

Enigma launch day. Breaking RSA challenge goes live with Terra Quantum's Senior Global Head of Security Taylor Hartley as the first external guest. ecdsa.fail challenge validates the model, prize pools at $400K, AQT quantum volume milestone, School of Mines capstone progress, and Quantum.Tech World preview.

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qBitTensor Labs Live — May 21, 2026

May 21, 2026

Terra Quantum confirmed as the Breaking RSA partner, Treasury Wallet Challenge results, Enigma launch timeline, credit card payments for SN48, and ecosystem commentary. Also the first QBTLL Live(ish) -- a Riverside glitch meant this one was recorded and posted after the fact.

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qBitTensor Labs Live — April 23, 2026

Apr 23, 2026

A candid session on Bittensor ecosystem friction, the five-month treasury wallet saga, Enigma's imminent soft launch, IonQ's quantum scaling milestone, and the new marketing strategy across subnets.

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qBitTensor Labs Live — October 2, 2025

Oct 2, 2025

Peaked circuit generation sees a 5-10x volume increase alongside reduced revisit times, Shor's challenge details and launch timeline revealed, Open Quantum platform progress with 150k+ lines of backend code, and a deep dive into market modeling and halving preparedness.

Challenge 3: Breaking RSA Classically — Shor's Order-Finding Circuits

Oct 1, 2025

Technical paper for Subnet 63's third challenge — using quantum phase estimation and Shor's algorithm to factor RSA keys, marking the subnet's first contact with real-world quantum computing problems.

qBitTensor Labs Live — September 18, 2025

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qBitTensor Labs Live — September 18, 2025

Sep 18, 2025

Subnet 63 stability improvements, a 3x speedup in peaked circuit generation through a novel obfuscation-based reuse technique, Shor's challenge timeline, and dispatches from Quantum World Congress including insights on national quantum strategies and the race toward 50 logical qubits.

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PodcastYouTube

A Quantum Conversation on Hash Rate

Sep 9, 2025

Mark Jeffrey hosts Bob Wold for a deep conversation about quantum computing, Bittensor integration, and the vision behind SN63 and SN48.

qBitTensor Labs Live — September 4, 2025

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qBitTensor Labs Live — September 4, 2025

Sep 4, 2025

The inaugural qBitTensor Labs Live covers peaked circuit generation speed-ups, subnet 63 stability, the hidden stabilizer challenge solution via Pauli propagation, an early look at the Open Quantum UI, and the strategic interplay between subnet 48 (compute) and subnet 63 (innovation).

Challenge 2 Solved: Hidden Stabilizers Retirement

Sep 1, 2025

The hidden stabilizer challenge is retired after miners developed a Pauli propagation technique that solved it efficiently — a testament to the subnet's ability to drive real algorithmic innovation.

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PodcastYouTube

Quantum Computing Innovation

Aug 28, 2025

Exploring breakthroughs in quantum computing and Bittensor integration.

Challenge 2: Hidden Stabilizers — Clifford Circuit Obfuscation

Aug 1, 2025

Technical paper for Subnet 63's second challenge — recovering hidden Pauli stabilizers from obfuscated Clifford circuits, testing miners' ability to reverse-engineer quantum circuit structure.

Challenge 1: Peaked Circuits — Provable Quantum Advantage

Jul 1, 2025

Technical paper for Subnet 63's first challenge — using peaked circuits from Aaronson & Zhang's framework to create a provable, verifiable benchmark for genuine quantum computation.