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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Adding optional Lattice signatures and PoW per tx to Bitcoin for future proofing
by
ETFbitcoin
on 18/05/2023, 11:38:30 UTC
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Now if we (a node) see a system compromise, we require the SHA256(tx) value to be less than 1/1000000 * 256 bit value, we can be relatively confident the issuing wallet has done a certain amount of pow on that tx for it to be issued.

Why?

This is an emergency brake that bitcoin node operators could optionally enable if there was a system wide compromise.  It gives bitcoin owners time to issue their own tx with a local PoW to move their funds to a QC safe or uncompromised signature system.

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Aside from problem i mentioned earlier, it's useless unless majority of node operator enforce this rule. Thief with QC could just broadcast the transaction to node which doesn't enforce this rule.