BTQ Technologies Launches BIP 360 Testnet, Pushing Bitcoin Toward Quantum-Proof Security

TLDR: BTQ Technologies launched testnet v0.3 of Bitcoin Quantum, marking the first live implementation of BIP 360. BIP 360 introduces Pay-to-Merkle-Root outputs that hide public keys, reducing exposure to future quantum attacks. Bitcoin’s current ECDSA encryption could be broken by a sufficiently powerful quantum computer targeting private keys. Moving BIP 360 to Bitcoin’s mainnet requires [...]

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