Bitcoin Developers Propose BIP-361 to Freeze Quantum-Vulnerable Legacy Addresses

Jameson Lopp and five other individuals have proposed freezing all quantum-vulnerable Bitcoin addresses to protect BTC from future quantum threats. The motivation behind this development comes from a long-standing concern in the community that advances in the technology could eventually compromise the network’s current security structure. Migration Towards Safer Wallets In a Tuesday post on GitHub, the group ou…