Whats the Plan For a Post-Quantum Soft-Fork? | Bitcoin 2026
What's actually the plan to make Bitcoin quantum-safe? At the Bitcoin 2026 Conference Open Source stage, Bitcoin Magazine's Aaron van Wirdum moderates the most technical post-quantum panel yet. Joined by "Blocksize War" author Jonathan Bier of Farside Investors, MARA's Mike Casey, Christian Papathanasiou of Quantum Safe Technologies Corp, and Ian Smith of Surmount Systems, the panel walks through BIP-360 (Pay-to-Merkle-Root), BIP-361's three-phase migration, and the hourglass proposal for Satoshi's coins. They also unpack the NSA's CNSA 2.0 standard, the 2028 Q-Day forecast, and why ~7 million BTC are quantum-vulnerable today.Use code BM10 to get 10% off Bitcoin 2027 Conference in Nashville: https://2027.b.tc
🔶 Moderator: Aaron van Wirdum - Bitcoin Magazine
🔶 Jonathan Bier - Farside Investors
🔶 Mike Casey - MARA
🔶 Christian Papathanasiou - Quantum Safe Technologies Corp
🔶 Ian Smith - Surmount Systems
Chapters:
02:48 — Ian Smith On The 2027–2028 Q-Day Timeline & Cyclone Quantum Computers
06:06 — Christian Papathanasiou On The "Manhattan Project Of Computing"
09:04 — The NSA's CNSA 2.0 Standard & Why Government Systems Must Migrate By 2030
13:14 — Jonathan Bier On Why Taproot Is Already Quantum Vulnerable
17:00 — Bitcoin's Vulnerable Output Types: 7 Million BTC At Risk
19:34 — Mike Casey Explains BIP-360: Pay-To-Merkle-Root
22:33 — Hash-Based vs. Lattice-Based Signatures: ML-DSA, Sphinx & The Trade-Offs
27:29 — BIP-361's Three-Phase Migration & The Lightning Network Quantum Problem
35:14 — The Hourglass Proposal: Rate-Limiting Satoshi's Coins At 1 BTC Per Block
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