Coinbase custodies 5 percent of all Bitcoin and urges a post-quantum switch: what matters now
BTC when published $81,334Now $80,617 ▼ −0.88% since it was published
Select what genuinely interests you. Your picks feed directly into our editorial planning. Weekly. 60 seconds. Carefully curated by our editors: no hype, no promo flood, no spam. Coinbase published a position paper on the future of Bitcoin signatures on October 13, 2026. Its central claim is that the move to schemes a quantum computer cannot break has to begin before such a machine exists. Bitcoin is untouched by it at around $81,600 (CoinGecko, October 16). The paper names neither a deadline nor an activation mechanism, and that is precisely its message: the debate is starting, the implementation is not.
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