A researcher named Avihu Levy, CPO at StarkWare, published a proposal claiming to make bitcoin transactions quantum-safe without requiring any changes to the bitcoin protocol.
The scheme, called Quantum Safe Bitcoin (QSB), reportedly works within bitcoin's existing consensus rules, specifically legacy script constraints of 201 opcodes and 10,000 bytes.
The problem it aims to address: standard bitcoin transactions rely on ECDSA signatures, which are theoretically vulnerable to Shor's algorithm on a sufficiently powerful quantum computer. Most proposed defenses require protocol upgrades.
QSB attempts a different approach. Instead of relying on elliptic curve math for security, it uses a "hash-to-signature puzzle" where the script hashes a transaction-bound public key and checks whether the output forms a valid signature structure, an event that occurs roughly once in every 2^46 attempts. The claim is that because security depends on hash pre-image resistance rather than ECDSA, Shor's algorithm wouldn't help an attacker.
Levy estimates the cost to construct such a transaction at $75–$150 in cloud GPU compute and says a working pinning search has been completed on real hardware.
The project is still incomplete. Script generation and GPU search code exist, but no transaction has been broadcast on-chain. The digest search hasn't been tested end-to-end, and the approach requires non-standard transaction submission directly to miners since it exceeds default relay policy limits.
The proposal builds on earlier work by Robin Linus. Whether it holds up under peer review and gains any traction among bitcoin developers is an open question.
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The quest to identify Satoshi reflects the deep disdain mainstream media has for Bitcoin and Bitcoiners.
To them, Bitcoin is a fool’s errand.
They think we are idiots.
So of course they never stop to consider whether we have bothered to ask all the same questions, make the same enquiries, over and over again in fact, over 17 years.
Through multiple bear markets where nothing much happens.
In an industry w thousands of wealthy, retired, time-rich, curious, contrarian, intelligent, autistic, problem solving, shitposting, dipshits who haven’t touched grass or seen daylight in years — sitting in a room w a single chair — who would like nothing more than to solve the biggest puzzle Bitcoin.
It’s the same mindset that drives the “I’m new to bitcoin and I’m here to fix it” crowd who rub their two brain cells together to come up with the genius idea of increasing TPS.
Sure mate.
Nobody’s thought of that.
They won’t ever give this community credit enough to ask US who Satoshi is, or why it doesn’t even matter.
It’s not a well kept secret.
We’ve all just realised THIS is a fool’s errand, which hurts people along the way, imposing unwanted public scrutiny on the innocent, and putting them in great personal danger.
You don’t know who Satoshi is.
So fuck off!
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