{"id":913046,"date":"2026-06-15T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T23:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/presidio-bitcoin-releases-quantum-readiness-paper\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T18:14:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T23:14:00","slug":"presidio-bitcoin-releases-quantum-readiness-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/presidio-bitcoin-releases-quantum-readiness-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidio Bitcoin Releases Quantum Readiness Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoins <\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_63\">\n<p>Today Presidio Bitcoin, a Bitcoin hub located in the Bay Area in California, has launched a <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/presidiobtc\/bitcoin-quantum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">knowledge repository\/living report on Github<\/a> to track the current state of research related to Bitcoin\u2019s quantum vulnerability. <\/p>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<blockquote data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Our Quantum Bitcoin Summit last July helped push bitcoin\u2019s quantum discussion forward. <\/p>\n<p>Today we&#8217;re publishing Bitcoin&#8217;s Quantum Readiness, a living paper on bitcoin&#8217;s exposure, mitigation menu, upgrade paths, and plausible transition scenarios. \ud83e\uddf5\ud83d\udc47 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XHdiSJFrlB\">pic.twitter.com\/XHdiSJFrlB<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Presidio Bitcoin (@PresidioBitcoin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PresidioBitcoin\/status\/2044082265303724151?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 14, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><template data-nitro-marker-id=\"83b926d767a9ed3e82c910cc56deb9c5-1\"><\/template><template data-nitro-marker-id=\"372de9843891598aa58675a785cc4349-1\"><\/template> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The report aims to be a central location where people in the ecosystem can easily keep track of and analyze the current state of research around the issue. <\/p>\n<p>It currently takes a comprehensive look through the state of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The current state of quantum computing, as well as research into different quantum computing technologies that could lead to material engineering progress towards a viable device.<\/li>\n<li>The level of exposure, i.e. how many coins and how much overall value is currently vulnerable to long-range attacks by a capable quantum computer.<\/li>\n<li>Post-quantum cryptographic schemes, as well as the current state of research in developing variants of such schemes more heavily optimized for Bitcoin\u2019s unique architecture and way of functioning. <\/li>\n<li>Different ways of implementing post-quantum cryptography in Bitcoin, and the trade-offs between these different paths.<\/li>\n<li>Different mechanisms for safely migrating vulnerable coins to quantum-safe addresses in the event that a powerful enough quantum computer is created before users migrate to post-quantum cryptography.<\/li>\n<li>An analysis of different ways that the actual migration could play out under different circumstances. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They plan to regularly update the repository\/report as new research comes out, and solutions and plans are further refined and updated. <\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes after growing claims that Bitcoin developers are not doing anything to acknowledge or address the issue, and aims to highlight the on-going research and development into solutions to the issue conducted by developers. <\/p>\n<p>Read the current version of the report <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/presidiobtc\/bitcoin-quantum\/blob\/main\/presidio-bitcoin-quantum-readiness-v1-apr-2026.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_75\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/authors\/shinobi\" title=\"Shinobi\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"bitcoins\" alt=\"bitcoins Shinobi\" height=\"117\" width=\"117\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-ileamcn.nitrocdn.com\/BngESKHdyFjXuZbvyAhEMmtQtwLKSKkU\/assets\/images\/optimized\/rev-5e9a3d4\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/shinobi.jpg 2x\" nitro-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/cdn-ileamcn.nitrocdn.com\/BngESKHdyFjXuZbvyAhEMmtQtwLKSKkU\/assets\/images\/optimized\/rev-5e9a3d4\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/shinobi.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" nitro-lazy-empty id=\"MTE2MzoyOTg2-1\" data-nitro-empty-id=\"MTE2MzoyOTg2-1\" previous-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB2aWV3Qm94PSIwIDAgMjAwMCAyMDAwIiB3aWR0aD0iMjAwMCIgaGVpZ2h0PSIyMDAwIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/authors\/shinobi\">Shinobi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shinobi is an pseudonymous self taught educator in the Bitcoin space. He was the co-host of Block Digest, a news\/tech oriented Bitcoin podcast, as well as What Bitcoin Did Tech Show with Peter McCormack which centered around explaining technical concepts to non-technical users. That is all he will tell us about himself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> Shinobi <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/news\/presidio-bitcoin-releases-quantum-readiness-paper\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Presidio Bitcoin, a Bitcoin hub located in the Bay Area in California, has launched a knowledge repository\/living report on Github to track the current state of research related to Bitcoin\u2019s quantum vulnerability. Our Quantum Bitcoin Summit last July helped push bitcoin\u2019s quantum discussion forward. Today we&#8217;re publishing Bitcoin&#8217;s Quantum Readiness, a living paper on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":913047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4041,150293],"tags":[11476],"class_list":["post-913046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bitcoin","category-presidio","tag-bitcoins"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}