Post-quantum migration is technically doable. The real question: who pays the performance cost first?
$BNB Chain's migration test swapped ECDSA for ML-DSA-44. Result? Transaction size exploded from ~110 bytes to 2.5KB. Throughput dropped 40-50%. Solana already deployed post-quantum sigs on testnet.
@cz_binance @heyibinance — if this upgrade tanks speed by half, do you push BNB Chain to migrate early or wait until quantum threats get closer? Security demands prep, but users will eat the data bloat and performance hit.
$BTC has a bigger problem. Satoshi's estimated 1,096,361 $BTC stash includes early P2PK outputs with public keys exposed on-chain. Once Shor's algorithm goes live, those coins are first in the crosshairs.
MemeBitcoin $MBTC @1096361BTC just raised $8M and turned Satoshi's quantum risk into a live experiment. Users can generate and test candidate private keys for early addresses. Community's already hit 20M+ attempts, with a 1 $BTC bounty pool.
Brute-forcing Satoshi's keys? Low odds. But running this security drill now beats waiting for the threat to materialize before discussing migration.
$BNB Chain's migration test swapped ECDSA for ML-DSA-44. Result? Transaction size exploded from ~110 bytes to 2.5KB. Throughput dropped 40-50%. Solana already deployed post-quantum sigs on testnet.
@cz_binance @heyibinance — if this upgrade tanks speed by half, do you push BNB Chain to migrate early or wait until quantum threats get closer? Security demands prep, but users will eat the data bloat and performance hit.
$BTC has a bigger problem. Satoshi's estimated 1,096,361 $BTC stash includes early P2PK outputs with public keys exposed on-chain. Once Shor's algorithm goes live, those coins are first in the crosshairs.
MemeBitcoin $MBTC @1096361BTC just raised $8M and turned Satoshi's quantum risk into a live experiment. Users can generate and test candidate private keys for early addresses. Community's already hit 20M+ attempts, with a 1 $BTC bounty pool.
Brute-forcing Satoshi's keys? Low odds. But running this security drill now beats waiting for the threat to materialize before discussing migration.