Developers Lower Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Transaction Cost to Under $70

Insider Brief Recent developments in an open optimization challenge have significantly decreased the GPU cost of creating a quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction, dropping from approximately $320 to about $67 in just a week based on current benchmarking data. The top submissions have boosted transaction-pinning throughput on an RTX 4090 from around 146 million to over 820 […]
Research indicates that quantum-safe bitcoin can now be achieved without a soft fork, though it comes with a price tag of $200 each.

New Approach to Quantum-Secure Bitcoin Transactions Researchers at StarkWare have unveiled what they claim is the first method to achieve quantum-secure Bitcoin transactions on active networks without altering the Bitcoin protocol. However, this approach comes with a hefty price tag, costing as much as $200 per transaction, and is intended primarily as a temporary solution. […]