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ternarycrypto is a live monitoring feed for the quantum-computing / cryptocurrency intersection. A crawler polls arXiv, NIST, Google Research, Hacker News, CoinDesk, Decrypt and the Bitcoin BIPs repo, scores each item for relevance to the Q-Day threat model, and publishes the result. A weekly digest summarises the past seven days. Editor's notes land only when a human judgment is actually warranted.
There is no newsletter, no subscribe popup, no tracking. If you want updates, use the RSS feed.
Why "ternary"?
Most commentary on quantum and crypto collapses into binary framings: doomed or fine, break or hold, Bitcoin or nothing. That framing is wrong in both directions. The threat is real but partial; the mitigations are viable but political; the timeline is uncertain but narrowing. Non-binary analysis gives you three useful states instead of two: confirmed, contradicted, unresolved. We publish the third category honestly rather than forcing it into one of the first two.
The name also nods to the small but growing ternary-computing research line (Huawei's ternary logic chips, Korean TCMOS work) as a reminder that compute architectures are not fixed. They aren't the quantum threat, but they're a useful metaphor for keeping more than two branches open in an analysis.
How the scoring works
Each indexed item is assigned a relevance score from 0 to 100 against the quantum-crypto intersection. Scoring has two stacked implementations:
- Heuristic (always on) — keyword and phrase matching against a curated list of PQC, Shor, Grover, ECDLP, lattice, Dilithium, Kyber, BIP-360, and related terms, weighted by source authority.
- LLM (optional) — when an API key is present, a language model re-scores borderline items with a rubric prompt. A local model (self-hosted) is the planned default; the hosted-API path is a stopgap.
Scores are not sacred. They are a triage signal, not a verdict. An 80+
item is probably worth reading; a 20 item probably isn't. Everything
published is inspectable in src/content/feed/items.json in
the source repo.
What this is not
- Not a newsletter. No sustained human writing cadence.
- Not investment advice. Treat everything accordingly.
- Not a Bitcoin-only feed. Ethereum PQ migration, NIST schedule, academic cryptanalysis and policy all count.
- Not real-time. Crawler runs on a schedule; expect hour-to-day latency, not seconds.
Operator
Built and maintained from Norway. No sponsors, no ads, no affiliate links. Contact: the source repo on GitHub is the canonical channel.