{"id":626770,"date":"2026-07-09T13:53:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/bitcoins-quantum-dilemma-bigger-blocks-or-stark-proofs\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T13:53:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:53:55","slug":"bitcoins-quantum-dilemma-bigger-blocks-or-stark-proofs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/bitcoins-quantum-dilemma-bigger-blocks-or-stark-proofs\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin\u2019s quantum dilemma: Bigger blocks or STARK proofs?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bitcoin\u2019s<\/p>\n

Dealing with large post quantum signatures slowing down Bitcoin can be solved with bigger blocks, or aggregating signatures using STARK proofs.<\/p>\n

ZK STARKs are the best way to deal with the issues created with making Bitcoin quantum-safe \u2014 and to reach mass adoption at the same time \u2014 says StarkWare co-founder Eli Ben-Sasson.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, he claims Blockstream founder Adam Back agrees.<\/p>\n

Ben-Sasson has been in the news this week for his controversial suggestion on X to increase Bitcoin inflation to 4% annually. Grok\u2019s analysis of the replies found \u201czero clear support for the proposal.\u201d<\/p>\n

But as the co-inventor of STARKs \u2014 quantum-secure, hash-based zero-knowledge proofs \u2014 he\u2019s on much firmer ground, with some leading Bitcoin researchers supporting the concept.<\/p>\n

Ben-Sasson\u2019s own project Starknet last week announced<\/a> its own three phase project to become quantum secure.<\/p>\n

Adding zero-knowledge proofs to Bitcoin does not make the blockchain quantum secure by itself. ZK proofs are a way to deal with the problems caused by adding much larger post-quantum (PQ) signature schemes to Bitcoin.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Dealing with large post quantum signatures slowing down Bitcoin can be solved with bigger blocks, or aggregating signatures using STARK proofs. ZK STARKs are the best way to deal with the issues created with making Bitcoin quantum-safe \u2014 and to reach mass adoption at the same time \u2014 says StarkWare co-founder Eli Ben-Sasson. What\u2019s more, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":626771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-626770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}