Morning Minute: Bitcoin Devs Propose New Quantum Solution

Tyler Warner

Thu, April 16, 2026 astatine 7:04 AM CDT 6 min read

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Today’s apical news:

• Crypto majors somewhat green; Bitcoin astatine $74,600

• BTC ETFs spot $186M successful inflows, $600M successful past 2 days

• BIP-361 connection would frost unmigrated Bitcoin successful effort against quantum

• All Birds banal soars 800% aft pivot to AI

• UNC jumps different 120% to $20M, fastest meme runner successful months

The newest quantum-proof mentation for Bitcoin came connected Wednesday.

Casa CTO Jameson Lopp and 5 co-authors posted BIP-361 to Bitcoin’s GitHub Tuesday - a three-phase program to migrate coins disconnected quantum-vulnerable addresses oregon person them frozen by the network.

About 34% of each BTC sits successful aboriginal Pay-to-Public-Key addresses with exposed nationalist keys, including Satoshi’s estimated 1.1M BTC (~$74B). A quantum machine moving Shor’s algorithm could theoretically deduce backstage keys from those exposed nationalist keys. Google’s quantum squad has flagged 2029 arsenic a imaginable menace date.

How this program works would prohibition caller transactions to bequest addresses, past frost each unmigrated coin and past connection ZK-proof betterment via BIP-39 seed. Lopp himself calls it a unsmooth sketch and says helium doesn’t deliberation it’s indispensable yet. But the quantum timepiece is ticking and caller solutions are astatine slightest starting to travel in…

Key Details:

• BIP-361 posted to Bitcoin’s GitHub Tuesday by Jameson Lopp and 5 co-authors; three-phase program to frost quantum-vulnerable coins that don’t migrate; ~34% of BTC astatine hazard including Satoshi’s ~1.1M BTC

• The timeline: Phase A bans bequest code sends 3 years station BIP-360 activation; Phase B freezes unmigrated coins 2 years later; Phase C optional ZK-proof betterment via BIP-39 seed; Google flags 2029 arsenic a imaginable quantum menace date

• The debate: Lopp calls it a unsmooth sketch, not presently positioned for adoption; critics reason the frost mechanics fundamentally violates Bitcoin’s permissionless, sovereign ownership principle

New Bitcoin Proposal Would Freeze Coins to Counter Quantum Threat

🌞 WLFI Wants Your Tokens Locked Past Trump’s Second Term

Fresh disconnected past week’s $75M Dolomite indebtedness debacle and Justin Sun’s nationalist interruption with the project, World Liberty Financial dropped a governance connection Tuesday that investors did not person well.

WLFI projected unlocking 62.3 cardinal locked tokens nether presumption that agelong vesting good past Trump’s 2nd term. Early investors get a 2-year cliff past 2-year linear vest. Anyone who doesn’t ballot to judge gets locked indefinitely. Founders pain 10% of their allocation and vest the remainder implicit 5 years aft a 2-year cliff.