Bitcoin’s quantum-security work took two visible steps on August 26. StarkWare published a mined Bitcoin transaction built with its Quantum-Safe Bitcoin method, known as QSB. A team including Blockstream researcher Jonas Nick released a detailed SHRINCS specification, giving developers a hash-based signature scheme to examine.
Following broad intraday drawdowns across spot exchanges, crypto asset prices have begun to find firm ground.
Coldcard’s seed-generation failure showed that a Bitcoin multisig wallet can share one manufacturer-level weakness when several signing keys come from the same device family or firmware.
A retirement report shows how little room many U.S. workers have for financial setbacks. That context matters when crypto is presented as a route to faster wealth creation.
JPMorgan has reportedly reviewed the option of issuing a stablecoin. The bank says no product is under way, and a separate group of banks is discussing a commercial venture.
