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Congratulations to the authors of the "Google quantum paper" from April on winning this year's @ChaincodeLabs Bitcoin Research Prize. The paper had an enormous impact and gave the whole space a much clearer picture of the challenges ahead. Very well deserved! In Adam's bitcoin++ Insider Edition @btcinsider__ Oct 27 JUST IN: “Securing Elliptic Curve Cryptocurrencies against Quantum Vulnerabilities” announced as this year’s winner of @chaincode’s Bitcoin Research Prize 2026 The paper, produced largely by Google’s Quantum AI ( @GoogleQuantumAI ) group, provided new resource estimates for

At 15:30 today on @LuganoPlanB ’s P2P stage, we’ll cover significant cryptography developments from the last few months and a concrete plan for a new Bitcoin signature scheme. Blockstream @Blockstream Oct 22 Some security work has to start long before it's urgent. @n1ckler , Director of @blksresearch , takes OP_CHECKSHRINCS, a proposed opcode for post-quantum Bitcoin built on hash functions, to the technical stage at @LuganoPlanB .

In August 2019 I met with Tamás Blummer. He told me about his terminal illness, and we spent most of our time talking about what he called his legacy: side memory and defiads (defiant ads). I've always thought it was a missed opportunity that nobody picked that work up. Maybe Matthew Vuk 🛳️ @matthewvuk2 Oct 15 The death of Tamás Blummer in January 2020 prompted the launch of his ‘rust-bitcoin’ Memorial Fund 🦀 This was a turning point for the project, the “second era”, where Tobin Harding (tcharding) got involved. This issue from @darosior is a canonical example of the second era.

Post-quantum transactions that require only 96 bytes on-chain: @will_wjk (Imperial College) et al. published a very interesting variant of Shielded CSV, called Compact Shielded CSV. I've always thought the CSV model is attractive in a PQ setting: the blockchain only stores the