{"id":58193,"date":"2025-11-12T20:31:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T20:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=58193"},"modified":"2025-11-12T20:31:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T20:31:31","slug":"expert-reveals-bitcoin-quantum-survival-plan-heres-what-you-can-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=58193","title":{"rendered":"Expert Reveals Bitcoin Quantum Survival Plan: Here\u2019s What You Can Do"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A technical debate erupted on X after on-chain analyst Willy Woo published what he called a \u201cDUMMIES GUIDE TO BEING QUANTUM SAFE,\u201d urging Bitcoin holders to migrate coins away from Taproot addresses (bc1p) to SegWit bc1q or older P2PKH\/P2SH formats and to avoid spending until post-quantum protections are available.<\/p>\n

How To Make Bitcoin \u201cQuantum-Safe\u201d<\/h2>\n

\u201cIn the past it was about protecting your PRIVATE KEY (your seed phrase). In the age of big scary quantum computers (BSQC) that are coming, you need to protect your PUBLIC KEY also. Basically a BSQC can figure out your private key from a public key. The present day taproot addresses (the latest format) are NOT safe, these are addresses starting with \u201cbc1p\u201d and they embed the public key into the address, not good,\u201d Woo wrote<\/a> on Nov. 11.<\/p>\n

His argument hinges on a well-understood distinction in Bitcoin script types: Taproot<\/a> (P2TR) encodes a public key directly in the output and address, while legacy formats like P2PKH\/P2SH and SegWit P2WPKH hash the public key and reveal it only when coins are spent. That architectural difference matters in a future where a sufficiently powerful quantum computer could derive a private key from a revealed public key. Independent references note that P2TR indeed carries a public key in the output, whereas P2PKH conceals it until spend time.<\/p>\n

Woo\u2019s interim playbook is blunt: move UTXOs to bc1q (or \u201c1\u201d\/\u201c3\u201d) addresses, continue receiving to that address, but \u201cNEVER send BTC out of it\u201d until Bitcoin ships a quantum-resistant upgrade<\/a>\u2014at which point holders should move during low congestion, minimizing the window in which a public key is exposed in the mempool: \u201cSend your BTC into the new quantum safe address when the network is NOT congested, once you send, you reveal the private key for a short time. It\u2019s unlikely a BSQC will steal your coins in that short window.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also warned that P2PK \u201cSatoshi-era\u201d outputs are most at risk and suggested that lost coins with prior spending history could be vulnerable. \u201cSatoshi\u2019s 1M coins<\/a> using an ancient P2PK address will be stolen (unless a future softfork freezes them),\u201d he wrote, adding that ETFs, treasuries, and exchange cold storage \u201ccan be quantum resistant if the custodians take action\u201d well before any soft fork.<\/p>\n

Woo characterized industry expectations as \u201c2030 onwards\u201d for the arrival of \u201cQ-Day,\u201d while stressing that standards for quantum resistance are already rolling out across the wider cryptography space.<\/p>\n

Former Bitcoin Core maintainer Jonas Schnelli agreed<\/a> with the hygiene but pushed back on the framing. He called Woo\u2019s plan a prudent mitigation for unspent coins\u2014\u201cP2PKH gives you years of protection while Taproot exposes your pubkey immediately\u201d\u2014yet rejected the term \u201cquantum safe.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Schnelli\u2019s view, the moment any spend is broadcast, \u201cyour pubkey hits the mempool. A quantum attacker could crack your key and RBF double-spend before your transaction confirms (~10 minutes).\u201d He concluded: \u201cIt\u2019s a smart precaution, not a permanent solution.\u201d<\/p>\n

At press time, BTC traded at $104,693.<\/p>\n

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A technical debate erupted on X after on-chain analyst Willy Woo published what he called a \u201cDUMMIES GUIDE TO BEING QUANTUM SAFE,\u201d urging Bitcoin holders to migrate coins away from Taproot addresses (bc1p) to SegWit bc1q or older P2PKH\/P2SH formats and to avoid spending until post-quantum protections are available. How To Make Bitcoin \u201cQuantum-Safe\u201d \u201cIn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-58193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}