Why trust this
The credential is the retraction.
In 2025 I pushed quantum ECDLP solving on IBM hardware from 6-bit to 12-bit, then produced a 14-bit toy-curve result with Regev's algorithm. Inside Project Eleven's Q-Day Prize — the challenge ultimately won by a 15-bit solve — my 14-bit submission was privately confirmed and awarded a consolation prize.
Then I ran the null test it should have faced on day one: randomized data fed through my own classical post-processing. The pipeline "solved" it anyway. The result wasn't quantum. It was the post-processing.
I retracted the result, along with twenty months of methodology built on it, and published the falsification — the first public falsification of a prize-confirmed submission. A second multi-year experiment died under the same instrument. The full autopsy, artifact by artifact, is in the Quantum Post-Mortem.
I know how convincing bad quantum evidence looks, because I built it, believed it, and killed it. Most vendor claims have never faced that test. Yours will.
Every claim this practice makes carries a grade in the open Research Ledger — the same scorecard we sell, pointed at ourselves first.