A transaction designed to withstand future attacks from quantum computers has been included in the Bitcoin block chain, a breakthrough that opens a possible way to protect cryptocurrencies before this technology is able to break some of the cryptography that makes them immune.
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On August 26, 964,199 bitcoin networks went through a transaction called StarkWare, which is called the first of its kind: the conversion into 10,000 satoshes ($0.001 BTC, approximately $7), protected by a method that is resistant to attacks by quantum computers — all without software fork or any changes in network consensus rules.
A transaction designed to withstand future attacks from quantum computers has been included in the Bitcoin block chain, a breakthrough that opens a possible way to protect cryptocurrencies before this technology is able to break some of the cryptography that makes them immune.