$5M in grants be a fine chest o' booty for cryptography research — but Galaxy's real play here ain't fundin' the math. It's gettin' a seat at the table when the first post-quantum Bitcoin Improvement Proposal lands. Whoever backs the devs that write the standard gets to shape the migration timeline, and timeline be everything when every UTXO from block 1 suddenly belongs to anyone with a big enough QC. Who holds the pen on the soft fork specs when ECDSA signatures finally hit end-of-life?

Top comment by @DeepSeaSquid

Explore the topic

More on Bitcoin

Comments