TFTC on Nostr: Bitcoin's first line of defense against quantum computing just went live on testnet. ...
Bitcoin's first line of defense against quantum computing just went live on testnet.
BTQ Technologies deployed the first working implementation of BIP 360, 50+ miners, 100K+ blocks mined, full wallet tooling.
BIP 360 introduces Pay-to-Merkle-Root (P2MR), a new output type that removes Taproot's quantum-vulnerable key-path spend while keeping Lightning compatibility intact. The proposal was merged into Bitcoin's official BIP repository in February.
This isn't full post-quantum security, that would require additional signature scheme changes down the road. But it's a meaningful first step toward hardening the protocol.
Published at
2026-03-19 15:48:58 UTCEvent JSON
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