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Merits 6 from 2 users
Re: Quantum Computing and Bitcoin
by
ETFbitcoin
on 25/11/2018, 06:43:07 UTC
⭐ Merited by dbshck (4) ,bones261 (2)
ECDSA/secp256k1 is quantum-resistance as long as it's public key isn't known, which means users should be fine as long as they never re-use their Bitcoin address and Quantum computer isn't fast enough to find out it's private key before the transaction got confirmed/fully propagated to all nodes.

But there are proposal to use cryptographic signature which is quantum resistant, even though AFAIK there's huge trade-off such as far larger signature size and longer verification time.