In July, BlackRock, Coinbase, Strategy, and six other institutions formed the Bitcoin Security Consortium and pledged a combined $15 million over three years toward Bitcoin security research, including post-quantum cryptography. Members direct the funding independently rather than through a common pool.
The US Treasury has also brought digital assets into the financial sector’s broader quantum-readiness planning.
That leaves Bitcoin with two separate challenges: developing migration tools for holders whose keys remain hidden and finding a protocol-level answer for coins already exposed.
The Aug. 26 transaction shows that the first problem has at least one working mainnet solution. The second, which covers millions of Bitcoin, still requires a broader answer.
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