Bitcoin developer proposes ‘landmines’ to make quantum thieves lose their own BTC
Summary
A software developer has introduced a method to defend vulnerable digital assets from future quantum computing threats. The proposed mechanism allows attackers attempting to steal older cryptocurrency funds to lose their own collateral to watchful owners.
Anyone trying to move vulnerable bitcoin would have to put up matching collateral, giving prepared owners a chance to take both.
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