Video on what post-quantum signatures would do to Bitcoin, plus the awkward migration math.
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01 02 Reproducible pipeline turns forum spam into 2,438 manually verified illicit BTC addresses, with on-chain checks and timestamps.03 Bitcoin, apparently, should keep paying miners forever, and this talk walks through tail emissions and demurrage.04 Proof-of-concept WOTS+C in C, with Rocq/VST/SSProve proofs and a candid note that LLMs did most of the grinding.05 Bitcoin’s PQ signature shortlist is basically Dilithium, Falcon, and Hawk, with size and implementation pain laid out.06 Quantifying Bitcoin Network Resilience Through Critical Scenario Discovery: A Dual-Layer Framework for Discovering Contentious Fork Conditions in Decentralized Consensus arxiv.orgArxiv paper simulates 1,330 Bitcoin soft-fork scenarios; the novel bit is adoption thresholds outranking raw hashpower in fork outcomes.07 Blockstream's SHRINCS parameter search, with size and speed tradeoffs against SLH-DSA plus a reproducible explorer.08 Z-SCAPE: Zero-Knowledge Self-Custodial Credential Operation for Privacy-Preserving Asset Protection under Entropy-Source Failure eprint.iacr.orgRNG failure doesn't brick the wallet, it becomes a ZK recovery ceremony bound to an incident, nonce, expiry, and new address.09 Can CoW Swap really route cross-chain swaps into and out of Bitcoin now, or is this just the monthly metrics lap?10 Old Bitcoin-quantum doom, now with exposed-key math and a migration checklist instead of hand-wavy apocalypse.11 Antichain Winternitz: Guaranteed Garbled-Circuit Label Revelation on Bitcoin with Permissionless Recovery eprint.iacr.orgGarbled-circuit labels get a Bitcoin commitment that actually opens cleanly, with permissionless recovery.12 Firmware, the thing meant to protect keys, allegedly weakened COLDCARD seed entropy and may tie to a $38M BTC theft.13 #Bitcoin quantum risk is not only a future key-breaking attack. The harder challenge is migrating wallets, custodians and dormant coins without splitting ownership rules. x.comBitcoin's quantum problem isn't just key theft, it's migrating wallets and dormant coins without inventing new ownership rules.14 ZKPoSP swaps Bitcoin wallet signatures for ZK proofs, aiming to dodge quantum breakage without changing addresses.15 Near-tight bounds for Bitcoin mining incentive compatibility, with asymmetric tie-breaking and a richer action space, in case Nakamoto ga...16 Quantum apocalypse, apparently, is a YouTube livestream on ZK paths for Bitcoin migration and post-quantum proofing.17 Anthropic says a frontier model found new attacks on toy crypto; Bitcoin gets dragged in, though production keys are still fine.