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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: J. Lopp's Post-Quantum Migration BIP
by
Medusah
on 28/07/2025, 18:31:04 UTC
This is one of the reasons why I said this won't be easy. Even if you strip away the controversial freezing and determine that FALCON-512 is in fact the best, it would require a block size increase which is yet another controversial topic. It further complicates the delicate situation.

The alternative to using FALCON-512 would be to waiting indefinitely until an entire new signature algorithm is penned, which might produce smaller signatures.  Seems like a dead end, where we have to change mining economics by increasing the block size, or we fall short on security.