Developers working on Bitcoin are beginning to explore a new idea aimed at protecting the network from a problem that doesn’t exist yet—but could someday become real: quantum computing. A proposal known as BIP-360 has now been merged into the official Bitcoin Improvement Proposal repository. The document introduces a new address format called Pay-to-Merkle-Root (P2MR), which is designed to strengthen Bitcoin against possible quantum-computing attacks in the distant future. Right now, there is no immediate danger. Today’s quantum computers are nowhere near powerful enough to break the cryptographic systems that secure Bitcoin. Still, some developers believe it makes sense to
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