StarkWare: Cost of Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Transaction Falls to $67
- —Estimated cost fell from about $320 to roughly $67 in a week, a nearly 80% drop
- —The first transaction took about 3,100 GPU-hours and cost around $320
- —Benchmark rose from 146 million to over 820 million verified candidates per second on an RTX 4090
- —AI-assisted developers led: Opus 5, Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra, Grok 4.6
Why it matters: Cheaper quantum-resistant transactions accelerate Bitcoin's preparation for Q-Day, though StarkWare still favors a soft fork as the long-term fix.
Source: Decrypt