Bitcoin devs merge new plan to limit “quantum” exposure risk but there’s a fee and privacy tradeoff

Bitcoin developer contributors just cleared a documentation hurdle that crypto Twitter treated like an emergency quantum patch. It wasn't. On Feb. 11, a proposal for a new output type, Pay-to-Merkle-Root (BIP-0360), was merged into the official Bitcoin Improvement Proposals repository. No nodes upgraded. No activation timeline exists. The BIPs repository itself warns that publication doesn't […] The post Bitcoin devs merge new plan to limit “quantum” exposure risk but there’s a fee and privacy tradeoff appeared first on CryptoSlate.