Blockstream Names Falcon-1024 Top Quantum-Resistant Signature Pick for Bitcoin
Key Highlights: Falcon-1024 outperforms Dilithium in block space efficiency, requiring 3,073 bytes for its combined public key and signature compared to Dilithium’s 5,261 bytes at Category 3. Blockstream identified significant deployment hurdles for Falcon-1024, including a 90 KB signing memory footprint, floating-point math complexity, and a lack of hierarchical deterministic (HD) wallet derivation. While Falcon ...