Bitcoin Taproot is a protocol upgrade activated in November 2021 that improved Bitcoin's privacy, lowered fees for complex transactions, and gave developers a more flexible scripting environment. It ...

Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) technologist Jameson Lopp said on Sunday that upgrading the network to post-quantum standards could take up to a decade. Lopp, Chief Security Officer at self-custody platform ...

Seven years. That’s how long Bitcoin researcher and BIP-360 co-author Ethan Heilman estimates it would take for the blockchain to migrate to full quantum resilience if it started tomorrow. And he says ...

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko warned that Bitcoin developers must act to prepare for a possible quantum computing breakthrough that could render the network’s current security measures obsolete.

A security upgrade may have prompted the transfer of over $8 billion in bitcoin from dormant Satoshi-era wallets to modern addresses. The funds were moved to bc1q-style addresses, which offer enhanced ...

Asigna raises $3M to expand its Bitcoin-native multisig vault with a v2 upgrade and developer tools. Asigna, a smart multisig vault operator for Bitcoin, has raised $3 million in a funding round led ...

A proposed workaround could enable quantum-resistant Bitcoin transactions without a protocol change, but high compute costs limit real-world use. A Bitcoin researcher has come up with a way that could ...

Spending Policies allow users to set custom rules for outgoing Bitcoin transactions. Options include per-transaction limits (how much Bitcoin), velocity limits (how often), address whitelist (limits ...

“The LuxOS firmware upgrade we implemented in February is delivering measurable results, increasing Bitcoin production without adding more machines, despite February being a shorter month," stated ...