Blockstream on Nostr: At OPNEXT 2026, our Director of Research Jonas Nick explained how a soft fork could ...
At OPNEXT 2026, our Director of Research Jonas Nick explained how a soft fork could add post-quantum security to Bitcoin's Taproot tree.
Outputs commit to both Schnorr and PQ keys. Schnorr signatures stay cheap. The PQ path sits dormant until a cryptographically relevant quantum computer emerges.
https://youtu.be/zeCT7FBtY8QPublished at
2026-05-29 00:55:48 UTCEvent JSON
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