Cost of quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction drops 79% to under $67
- —Estimated compute cost for a QSB transaction fell from about $320 to $66–67, a 79% drop
- —The first QSB transaction was confirmed on Aug. 26, requiring ~3,100 GPU-hours on ~100 cards
- —The challenge by StarkWare, Yukon Research and Eigen Labs accepted 62 improvements to two compute tasks
- —The optimizations have so far been demonstrated only in benchmarks, not in live mainnet transactions
Why it matters: Cheaper QSB makes emergency quantum protection more accessible to large holders, though StarkWare still favors a soft fork as the long-term fix.
Source: CryptoHamster