1f52b on Nostr: Quantum threat to cryptography does actually worry me a lot for Bitcoin, we can’t ...
Quantum threat to cryptography does actually worry me a lot for Bitcoin, we can’t simply react to it quickly. Changing Bitcoin is super hard normally, then even once post-q cryptography is available the entire UTXO set needs to transact to be safe. Don’t know if it’s possible to add new cryptography as a soft fork (maybe as a future taproot version?) so a hard fork will be more contentious still. It will take years.
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2024-02-21 22:03:01Event JSON
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