🎯🖥️ BTQ TECHNOLOGIES LAUNCHES BITCOIN QUANTUM: THE FIRST QUANTUM-RESISTANT TESTNET 🎯🖥️
BTQ Technologies has announced the launch of Bitcoin Quantum, a permissionless fork of Bitcoin testnet designed to test transactions resistant to quantum attacks.
This milestone arrives exactly 17 years after Bitcoin's genesis block was mined by Satoshi Nakamoto on January 3, 2009, replacing the vulnerable ECDSA signatures with the standardized NIST ML-DSA algorithm (FIPS 204), the same used for U.S. national security systems.
The testnet is open to all: miners, developers, researchers, and users can run nodes, mine blocks, create wallets, sign transactions, and stress-test the infrastructure without risking the Bitcoin mainnet.
BTQ provides a block explorer (explorer.bitcoinquantum.com) and a mining pool (pool.bitcoinquantum.com), with block sizes increased to 64 MiB to accommodate ML-DSA signatures, which are 38-72 times larger than ECDSA.
The quantum threat is imminent: approximately 6.26 million BTC (valued at $650–750 billion) in addresses with exposed public keys are vulnerable, including the presumed 600,000–1.1 million Satoshi.
Advances such as Google's Willow chip (2024) and Microsoft's Majorana 1 (2025) are accelerating quantum computers capable of breaking ECDSA by 2030, with "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" threats.
The U.S. Department of Defense mandates migration to PQC by 2030, and investors like BlackRock warn of these risks in ETF prospectuses.
BTQ captures value by operating a mining pool (3% fee) to accumulate Bitcoin Quantum tokens as treasury assets, positioning itself as a "quantum canary" validated by Delphi Digital.
It is a proactive step while Bitcoin Core remains in exploratory phase on post-quantum BIPs.
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