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fromBitcoin Magazine
8 hours ago

Bernstein Pushes Back On Bitcoin Quantum Threat Fears, Says It's Not A Crisis: Report

Quantum computing poses a challenge to Bitcoin, but Bernstein sees it as a manageable protocol evolution rather than an immediate crisis.
fromCointelegraph
4 months ago

Ripple CTO's '50-year Bitcoin' joke has a point: Here's the deeper lesson on crypto evolution

Bitcoin evolves on two clocks: slow, consensus-driven changes at the base layer and fast experimentation at the edges. Major upgrades (such as Taproot) arrive through cautious soft forks after long review. Rapid shifts such as Lightning payments and Ordinals happen without changing Bitcoin's core rules, which is why headlines move faster than the L1. The '50-year' line is a cue to look at where change occurs, whether in the core protocol or at the edge, before judging whether Bitcoin has truly changed.
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