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Re: Will quantum computing kill crypto?
by
dinofelis
on 29/06/2017, 14:07:18 UTC
Unfortunately, in the earlier stages of Bitcoin, P2PK was implemented instead of P2PKH. The earlier transactions, specifically those that were mined to were vulnerable with the default implementation using P2PK.

I don't know why you say that.  Even in Satoshi's genesis block, the output script is

41 04 67 8A FD B0 FE 55 48 27 19 67 F1 A6 71 30 B7 10 5C D6 A8 28 E0 39 09 A6 79 62 E0 EA 1F 61
DE B6 49 F6 BC 3F 4C EF 38 C4 F3 55 04 E5 1E C1 12 DE 5C 38 4D F7 BA 0B 8D 57 8A 4C 70 2B 6B F1
1D 5F AC

that is essentially a bitcoin ADDRESS, meaning, it is a hash of a public key.