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Last week @avihu28's paper titled "Quantum Safe Bitcoin" dropped. He describes a novel technique for using 'transaction pinning' and hashing to create post-quantum bitcoin locking scripts.
The term 'transaction pinning' has previously been used in bitcoin for which attack?
Coming to @TheBitcoinConf in Vegas in two weeks? Join the Base58 Work(shop) (formerly known as LARP) team for a happy hour on Wed, April 28th from 5-7p
We'll be chatting about past and upcoming facilitator trainings and what's new for 2026!
this is a cool locking script. it proves three things: knowledge of two preimages (text blobs) and that you hold the private key for a pubkey (a signature)