🚨Migration of Bitcoin and Ethereum to Quantum Secure Blockchains:
đź“ŤIs the #Crypto world ready for Quantum D-Day?
Or are we sleepwalking into a Trillion dollar catastrophe?
🚀 NEW Ground-Breaking Research from BBA Fellow, Dr. Rob Campbell FBBA.
➡️ KEY HIGHLIGHTS:
⏩ Moving to post-quantum cryptography isn’t an upgrade – it’s a defensive downgrade:
Current PQC options mean accepting major costs now (around 50% capacity loss, higher latency and fees, heavier nodes) in return for protection against a future, uncertain quantum threat.
⏩ We’re benchmarking the wrong thing:
Almost all performance data comes from permissioned prototypes (e.g. enterprise/consortium chains), not global permissionless systems like Bitcoin and Ethereum – a critical methodological gap for trillion-dollar networks.
⏩ Quantum Threat Timeline is brutally tight:
Breaking secp256k1 requires 2,100–2,400 logical qubits (down from earlier estimates due to algorithmic improvements), with current systems at ~100 qubits, placing the threat 10-15 years away—but governance delays could match or exceed this window.
âś… The SOLUTION:
⏩ Crypto-agility is the only sensible path forward:
Instead of hard-wiring one “quantum-safe” scheme, research proposes a #HYBRID designs and crypto-agile protocols - so Bitcoin/Ethereum can swap algorithms if (or when) today’s PQC breaks – and AVOID a chaotic, crisis-driven upgrade later.
âś… Link to full paper:
https://jbba.scholasticahq.com/article/154321-hybrid-post-quantum-signatures-for-bitcoin-and-ethereum-a-protocol-level-integration-strategy
✍🏽 Since 2018, Dr Rob Campbell FBBA has published several papers on Post Quantum Blockchains, all of which can be found in The #JBBA.
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JBBA Editor in Chief:
Prof. Dr @nprofile1q... MBE FBBA
#PostQuantum #Blockchain #Bitcoin #Ethereum
đź“ŤIs the #Crypto world ready for Quantum D-Day?
Or are we sleepwalking into a Trillion dollar catastrophe?
🚀 NEW Ground-Breaking Research from BBA Fellow, Dr. Rob Campbell FBBA.
➡️ KEY HIGHLIGHTS:
⏩ Moving to post-quantum cryptography isn’t an upgrade – it’s a defensive downgrade:
Current PQC options mean accepting major costs now (around 50% capacity loss, higher latency and fees, heavier nodes) in return for protection against a future, uncertain quantum threat.
⏩ We’re benchmarking the wrong thing:
Almost all performance data comes from permissioned prototypes (e.g. enterprise/consortium chains), not global permissionless systems like Bitcoin and Ethereum – a critical methodological gap for trillion-dollar networks.
⏩ Quantum Threat Timeline is brutally tight:
Breaking secp256k1 requires 2,100–2,400 logical qubits (down from earlier estimates due to algorithmic improvements), with current systems at ~100 qubits, placing the threat 10-15 years away—but governance delays could match or exceed this window.
âś… The SOLUTION:
⏩ Crypto-agility is the only sensible path forward:
Instead of hard-wiring one “quantum-safe” scheme, research proposes a #HYBRID designs and crypto-agile protocols - so Bitcoin/Ethereum can swap algorithms if (or when) today’s PQC breaks – and AVOID a chaotic, crisis-driven upgrade later.
âś… Link to full paper:
https://jbba.scholasticahq.com/article/154321-hybrid-post-quantum-signatures-for-bitcoin-and-ethereum-a-protocol-level-integration-strategy
✍🏽 Since 2018, Dr Rob Campbell FBBA has published several papers on Post Quantum Blockchains, all of which can be found in The #JBBA.
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JBBA Editor in Chief:
Prof. Dr @nprofile1q... MBE FBBA
#PostQuantum #Blockchain #Bitcoin #Ethereum