{"id":649025,"date":"2026-08-27T04:52:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T04:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/27\/starkware-tests-quantum-resistant-bitcoin-transaction-on-mainnet\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T04:52:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T04:52:38","slug":"starkware-tests-quantum-resistant-bitcoin-transaction-on-mainnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/27\/starkware-tests-quantum-resistant-bitcoin-transaction-on-mainnet\/","title":{"rendered":"StarkWare tests quantum-resistant Bitcoin transaction on mainnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/quantum-transaction\" alt=\"StarkWare tests quantum-resistant Bitcoin transaction on mainnet\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>StarkWare said the experimental transaction demonstrated quantum-resistant Bitcoin spending without a fork, but it cost up to $200 and required direct miner submission.<\/p>\n<p>StarkWare researcher Avihu Levy has tested an experimental quantum-resistant transaction on the Bitcoin mainnet, in what the company described as the first transaction of its kind.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to StarkWare, the transaction was <a href=\"https:\/\/mempool.space\/tx\/305a24ffea912b9cf428f29ebf952321c96dab5bab284fc0d0801562f5abab07\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed<\/a> Wednesday in Bitcoin block 964,199. Onchain data shows that it spent a 10,000-satoshi output protected by Levy\u2019s Quantum Safe Bitcoin (QSB) scheme, with MARA Pool mining the block after receiving the transaction through its Slipstream service.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Levy\u2019s paper and code repository <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/avihu28\/Quantum-Safe-Bitcoin-Transactions\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> QSB combines hash-based one-time signatures with computational searches that bind an authorization to a specific transaction. The construction is intended to prevent forgery even if a quantum computer breaks the elliptic-curve cryptography Bitcoin uses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/starkware-quantum-resistant-bitcoin-transaction-mainnet\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>StarkWare said the experimental transaction demonstrated quantum-resistant Bitcoin spending without a fork, but it cost up to $200 and required direct miner submission. StarkWare researcher Avihu Levy has tested an experimental quantum-resistant transaction on the Bitcoin mainnet, in what the company described as the first transaction of its kind.\u00a0 According to StarkWare, the transaction was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":649026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-649025","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\/649025","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=649025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}