Feb 24
Bitcoin’s First Quantum Step
Cryptography rarely fails overnight — it ages. With BIP-360, Bitcoin becomes the first large-scale system to treat security not as a patching problem, but as a lifecycle problem. BIP-360 and the Beginning of a Cryptographic Migration For more than a decade, warnings that quantum computers will break Bitcoin have circulated in predictable cycles — typically following a new qubit milestone or an…
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