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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Quantam: How Long Before Computers Crack Private Keys
by
JollyGood
on 15/02/2020, 11:55:48 UTC
Now that is an idea, it could easily be implemented with soft-forks.

Having said that, what is clear is that at some stage quantum resistant Bitcoin has to come in to force and become a reality. As mentioned in one of the links in this thread, it might take  5 years maybe 10 but eventually they will get access to private keys.

If it did come down to it I honestly cannot see anybody complaining about a hard fork if it was a simple choice between the end of Bitcoin or it carrying on (but those who did not move their coins before any fork just might have a differing view).

it could even be done with soft forks---one soft fork to implement a post-quantum signature scheme, and another to destroy all ECDSA-secured outputs after date x.