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Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) technologist Jameson Lopp said on Sunday that upgrading the network to post-quantum standards could take up to a decade. Lopp, Chief Security Officer at self-custody platform ...

Bitcoin Taproot is a protocol upgrade activated in November 2021 that improved Bitcoin's privacy, lowered fees for complex transactions, and gave developers a more flexible scripting environment. It ...

Seven years. That’s how long Bitcoin researcher and BIP-360 co-author Ethan Heilman estimates it would take for the blockchain to migrate to full quantum resilience if it started tomorrow. And he says ...

Charles Edwards warns that quantum computing could depress Bitcoin price below $50,000 if the network does not address quantum issues. His view is provocative but not universally shared; other leaders ...

Asigna raises $3M to expand its Bitcoin-native multisig vault with a v2 upgrade and developer tools. Asigna, a smart multisig vault operator for Bitcoin, has raised $3 million in a funding round led ...

A security upgrade may have prompted the transfer of over $8 billion in bitcoin from dormant Satoshi-era wallets to modern addresses. The funds were moved to bc1q-style addresses, which offer enhanced ...

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko warned that Bitcoin developers must act to prepare for a possible quantum computing breakthrough that could render the network’s current security measures obsolete.

“The LuxOS firmware upgrade we implemented in February is delivering measurable results, increasing Bitcoin production without adding more machines, despite February being a shorter month," stated ...

Spending Policies allow users to set custom rules for outgoing Bitcoin transactions. Options include per-transaction limits (how much Bitcoin), velocity limits (how often), address whitelist (limits ...

SegWit (Segregated Witness) is a major Bitcoin upgrade implemented in 2017. It tackles scalability problems and makes transactions smoother by changing how transaction data is handled. This article ...

A proposed workaround could enable quantum-resistant Bitcoin transactions without a protocol change, but high compute costs limit real-world use. A Bitcoin researcher has come up with a way that could ...