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Bitcoin Wizards Post Quantum Bitcoin
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What sipa is referring to is a construction where you do a IF { AREWEPOSTQUANTUMYET_VERIFY standard checksig } ELSE { HASHBASED_PUBKEY }... and then after doomsday you just turn AREWEPOSTQUANTUMYET abort on execution.
-> Hash based signatures are quantum proof and we can soft-fork introduce a AREWEPOSTQUANTUMYET_VERIFY flag to deactive ECDSA signstures
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