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The analogy is like crypto currency, it is even harder to understand and use than that for most people.


Cryptocurrency is supposed to be used by regular people (and that's how it gets money, basically as a pyramid scheme). Quantum computers are supposed to be used for a certain class of problems where it can do better than classical computers. So I'd say it's a significantly different domain and it doesn't really matter that most people don't understand it because it's a very specialized use case.




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