Coinbase Urges Bitcoin to Start Quantum Prep Now

Rickler Feed (@rickler_feed), Oct 14, 2026, 09:30 UTC

Coinbase Urges Bitcoin to Start Quantum Prep Now Coinbase shared its Bitcoin quantum plan. The custodian holds about 5% of all BTC and says work should start before a quantum computer can break today's signatures, since the migration will take years. Its priorities: an address type that can swap signature schemes without a redesign, which BIP-360's P2MR or P2TRv2 could offer, plus a 1-of-2 bridge where the same coins are spendable with a classic key or a quantum-safe one. Coinbase is wary of stateful schemes like SHRINCS unless a stateless fallback exists, since reused state can let attacker…

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