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The Bitcoin improvement project is composed by CASA Jameson Loop and five collaborators, which places a more powerful road map so far to harden the network against quantum computing. The proposal was entitled “Post -quarter migration and the old signature of signature” Published On GitHub on July 14 and calls for a gradual retirement for all protected outputs through ECDSA signatures today and Schnorr. The authors frame this step as a necessary preventive kick: “It transforms quantitative security into a special incentive-failure to upgrade and will definitely lose access to your money.”

Plans to secure Bitcoin from the threat of quantity

Since every public key appears on the chain, it can, in principle, be recovered by its own key corresponding to the strong quantity computer enough, warns the suggestion that “about 25 % of all bitcoin has revealed a general key on the chain; that UTXOS can steal with a sufficient amount.” This slide includes many early P2PK outputs, among which is nearly a million BTC is widely believed to be controlled by the Creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto.

The authors note that NIST has put the final touches on three post-quarter signing algorithms in 2024 and that the academic road maps now put a quantitative “encrypted” computers early from 2027-2030. At the same time, quantum algorithms improve to 20 x, “and it quickly reduces the safety margin in Bitcoin.
To neutralize the threat, the draft describes a soft sequence associated with the already determined P2QRH output type (specified in BIP-360):

Stage a It begins three years after the appearance of P2QRH live on the air and “does not allow any money to be sent to quantitative addresses, forcing new coins on quantum safe textual programs.

Stage b After two years, on the day of science previously announced, when the contract rejects the transactions that depend on ECDSA/Schnorr “, which makes the Legacy outputs undesirable.

Stage c It is optional, and awaiting more research, the owners who have missed the deadline to restore money by proving the zero knowledge can be able to possess the BIP-39 seed.

The logical basis of the document is explicit: “The successful quantitative attack on Bitcoin will lead to a significant economic disruption and damage across the entire ecosystem.” By imposing a well -known deadline, the authors hope to overcome what they describe as “the promotion of self -deficiency” between the governor, exchanges and the historically that extend to the protocol deportation over many years.

Each group of stakeholders is offered to calculate the differentiation and integration. Miners who risk the production of “unsuitable lumps” after stage B if they are not promoted, but in the meantime they can expect heavier blocks and fees higher than the post -quarter signature. Institutional holders face a potential credit responsibility if they ignore the migration schedule, while the stock exchanges face the probability of bankruptcy overnight if the quantitative attacks are drained from the hot governor. For individual users, the history of sunset converts an elusive threat to a difficult deadline.

The prominent natural result is that the abandoned metal currencies in the quantum suggestion programs will be permanently frozen, echoing the early Satoshi note that “lost currencies make other coins a little more.” The suggestion will disappear.

The BIP is still a draft and has not yet received a number or a TAPROOT activation stimulant, but it is already forming a probable discussion of a controversial discussion about the backward compatibility and the treatment of inactive balances. If adopted, the migration will be dwarfing Segwit and Taproot in both logistical complexity and cash risks, which directly affects a quarter of my estimation of 19.7 million BTC in existence.

At the present time, the authors made a clear leap: either the coordinates of the ecosystem on a pre -emptive schedule, or faces the possibility of responding to the emergency situation only after the first quantity theft occurred.

At the time of the press, BTC was traded at $ 118,623.

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