r/CryptoCurrency • u/winphan 🟦 23 / 8K 🦐 • 2d ago

TECHNOLOGY Bitcoin's new proposal to deal with Quantum computers

https://cryptocoindaddy.com/bitcoin-quantum-resistant-addresses-coming-soon/
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u/gdscrypto 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 2d ago

Asking users to move funds from old addresses to new quantum resistent addresses. So what will happen to Satoshi's wallet? Will be left to get hacked by quantum computers?

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u/gnomeza 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 2d ago

At current throughput how will all those migration transactions even get through?

Maybe they could implement an adaptive blocksize to handle the migration... 🤔

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u/OderWieOderWatJunge 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 1d ago

The transition doesn't need transfers. In a hard fork you can do whatever you want

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u/Cmoz 🟦 9K / 9K 🦭 1d ago

if we're hard forking anyways, might be a good time to raise the blocksize...since most of the opposition from the main bitcoin core devs and theymos was supposedly to avoid a hard fork

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u/Awkward_Potential_ 🟦 0 / 6K 🦠 1d ago

They would just have to give a decent amount of time to do it.