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Re: J. Lopp's Post-Quantum Migration BIP
by
Pmalek
on 18/07/2025, 15:39:27 UTC
⭐ Merited by vapourminer (2)
How satoshi bitcoin are at risk if he never spent them? I thought that u are at quantum risk if you spend your coins, maybe im missing something
The newer types of Segwit addresses we use today don't reveal public keys on the blockchain until you spend from them. The blockchain only shows a hashed format of the public key. These hashed keys could in theory also become vulnerable one day but you would need to have much, much, much... more computing power to brute force those hashes than P2PK addresses that expose the entire public key. That's why satoshi's stash and coins on old P2PK addresses are in greater danger than those in modern addresses.