El Salvador has announced plans to split its vast bitcoin holdings into multiple wallets in order to protect against potential quantum attacks. The Central American country owns roughly half a billion ...

What exactly did El Salvador do? The government redistributed roughly 6,274 BTC (around $678 million at publication time) from one address into 14 fresh addresses, each capped at 500 BTC, as a ...

The Bitcoin network took its first step towards quantum-computing resistance with the addition of BIP 360 to its repository.

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are now embedded in the global financial system. Countries are creating strategic reserves, and institutional investors, from hedge funds to pension schemes, are ...

El Salvador, the country with one of the largest Bitcoin treasuries, made a surprising move on Aug. 30 when it transferred its BTC holdings to 14 new addresses. The Bitcoin Office of the country ...

El Salvador has overhauled how it stores the nation’s bitcoin, saying the change both strengthens security today and prepares for technological risks that could emerge in the future. In an ...

Adopting the model would require miners and users to migrate to a separate “Bitcoin Quantum” blockchain rather than upgrade the existing network.

We outline a dual-track migration strategy for Bitcoin in response to the potential emergence of quantum computing. In both scenarios, funds that are carefully managed, i.e., stored in hashed address ...

Bitcoin’s BIP-360 introduces P2MR to reduce quantum risk. Here is what changes, what trade-offs come with it and what it does not fix.

IBM offers expanded access to quantum processors as developers prepare for the eventual challenge to Bitcoin's cryptography.