Quantum-Resistant Bitcoin Arrives Without Requiring a Soft Fork
Key Highlights: Researchers have introduced the “Compact Shielded Client-Side Validation (CSV)” framework, designed to safeguard Bitcoin against quantum computing threats without requiring a consensus-layer soft fork. The new approach offloads bulky post-quantum keys, transaction histories, and algorithmic proofs to the peer-to-peer level, maintaining the base blockchain strictly as an immutable ledger. The breakthrough emerges amid ...