Bitcoin Developer Proposes Hard Fork to Protect BTC From Quantum Computing Threats
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Bitcoin Developer Proposes Hard Fork to Protect BTC From Quantum Computing Threats
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BIP proposes Quantum-Resistant Address Migration Protocol
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The proposed solution sets a migration deadline to lock those funds unless they’re moved to a more secure wallet. This proposal isn’t a response to any imminent breakthrough in quantum computing. Instead, it's a preventive measure, yet it comes a little over a month after Microsoft unveiled Majorana 1, a quantum processing unit designed to scale to a million qubits per chip.
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After the deadline, non-upgraded nodes could fork from the network if they continue accepting legacy transactions.
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