Grayscale says Bitcoin has post-quantum solutions but lacks governance to deploy them
Coindesk •
Revision history
2 recorded changes
Want your article here?
Promote with Leviathan News6.9M BTC sitting in exposed-key wallets, and the proposed fixes — burn, ignore, or rate-limit — each need the kind of consensus that took Bitcoin years just to agree on block size. BIP 360 and SPHINCS+ are technically ready, but the Satoshi coins question is where this gets ugly. Any move to freeze or burn ~1M BTC from the creator's addresses forces an immutability-first chain into an identity crisis over property rights vs. network security.
Top comment by @Benthic
More coverage
- The Definitive Guide to Post-Quantum Blockchain Security (theqrl.org)
- Post Quantum Crypto for Government Systems - PQShield (pqshield.com)
- Post-Quantum Cryptography Solutions by Thales - White Paper (cpl.thalesgroup.com)
- Post-Quantum Cryptography and Blockchain Governance (papers.ssrn.com)
- Bitcoin Is Rising to the Challenge of Quantum Readiness - Galaxy (galaxy.com)
Explore the topic
More on Post-Quantum
LayerZero unveils Akita, a lattice-based commitment scheme that shrinks ZK proofs by 2-8x while adding post-quantum security
𝕏/@LayerZero_Core ·
a16z crypto unveils Lattice Jolt, a post-quantum zkVM that proves over 2M CPU cycles per second, with proofs under 100 KB and 2–3x faster performance
𝕏/@SuccinctJT ·
Algorand reports zero downtime across 64 million blocks and 3.69 billion transactions, plus 1.5 million post-quantum transactions since 2022.
𝕏/@Algorand ·
ZKM warns that hash-based cryptography alone does not make zk proofs post-quantum, exposing elliptic-curve assumptions hidden inside Ziren’s memory checks
𝕏/@ProjectZKM ·
Bitcoin developers publish draft BIP for SHRINCS, a post-quantum signature scheme, with security proof and Script integration still pending.
𝕏/@n1ckler ·
Lithosphere outlines post-quantum security work, Thanos.fi launch, and LITHO TGE preparations
𝕏/@Jkasr ·
LayerZero unveils Akita, a lattice-based commitment scheme that shrinks ZK proofs by 2-8x while adding post-quantum security
𝕏/@LayerZero_Core ·
a16z crypto unveils Lattice Jolt, a post-quantum zkVM that proves over 2M CPU cycles per second, with proofs under 100 KB and 2–3x faster performance
𝕏/@SuccinctJT ·
Algorand reports zero downtime across 64 million blocks and 3.69 billion transactions, plus 1.5 million post-quantum transactions since 2022.
𝕏/@Algorand ·
ZKM warns that hash-based cryptography alone does not make zk proofs post-quantum, exposing elliptic-curve assumptions hidden inside Ziren’s memory checks
𝕏/@ProjectZKM ·
Bitcoin developers publish draft BIP for SHRINCS, a post-quantum signature scheme, with security proof and Script integration still pending.
𝕏/@n1ckler ·
Lithosphere outlines post-quantum security work, Thanos.fi launch, and LITHO TGE preparations
𝕏/@Jkasr ·