Post-quantum bitcoin

Bitcoin, secured for the quantum era.

The same 21 million coins and the same network you trust — rebuilt on cryptography that quantum computers cannot break.

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Quick facts
0M
Maximum supply
0 min
Target block time
0 MB
Block size limit
FIPS 204
NIST-standardized signatures
Mining difficulty and parameters
Our thesis

Bitcoin solved digital scarcity. Bitcoin Quantum keeps it sound for the next fifty years.

A sufficiently powerful quantum computer could one day break the elliptic-curve signatures that protect ordinary Bitcoin wallets. Bitcoin Quantum closes that door before it opens.

We preserve everything that makes Bitcoin sound money — its supply schedule, proof-of-work consensus and peer-to-peer architecture — and swap the cryptography underneath for primitives proven resistant to quantum attack.

The technology

Three changes. Everything else stays Bitcoin.

01

Quantum-resistant signatures

Lattice- and hash-based signature schemes replace ECDSA, so funds stay protected even against Shor's algorithm on a fault-tolerant quantum machine.

02

Built for larger signatures

Post-quantum signatures are bigger. The protocol expands transaction capacity to absorb them — keeping fees low and blocks efficient as the network grows.

03

Public keys stay hidden

Pay-to-Merkle-Root (BIP-360) puts only a Merkle root on-chain — no public key to attack while coins rest. Post-quantum signatures secure the spend window.

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Under the hood

Cryptography that outlasts the quantum threat.

Every address is generated and spent with NIST-standardized post-quantum primitives — verifiable today, secure against the computers of tomorrow.

  • CRYSTALS-Dilithium (ML-DSA, NIST FIPS 204) signatures replace ECDSA
  • Native dilithium-bech32 and dilithium-legacy address formats
  • Cryptographic agility — ready to adopt new NIST PQC standards
shell · btq-cli testnet
# Generate a quantum-safe Dilithium address# and sign a testnet transaction. $ btq-cli -testnet createwallet "main"{ "name": "main" } $ btq-cli -testnet -rpcwallet=main \ getnewdilithiumaddresstdbt1qk4xv…q7n # Dilithium-bech32 $ btq-cli -testnet -rpcwallet=main \ sendtoaddress "tdbt1qk4xv…q7n" 0.508a7f…e2c1 # Every spend signed with ML-DSA — quantum-safe.
Testnet live

Run a quantum-safe node.

Spin up a testnet node in under fifteen minutes. Mine quantum-safe blocks, validate transactions, and help stress-test the network before mainnet.

Available for Windows, macOS, and Linux
  1. 01

    Download the release

    Grab the latest testnet release for your platform.

  2. 02

    Configure your node

    Follow the mining guide — extraction, daemon config, and pool connection in one place.

  3. 03

    Create a wallet & mine

    Generate a Dilithium key, connect to the pool, and start mining quantum-safe blocks.

Get involved

Three ways to join the network.

01 · Miners

Run a node, mine quantum-safe blocks.

Help secure the network and earn testnet BTQ. Same SHA-256 proof-of-work Bitcoin miners already know — with post-quantum signatures riding on top.

Quick start
02 · Developers

Build wallets, tools, integrations.

Bitcoin Core's UTXO model and scripting system, extended with a clean RPC API for post-quantum signing. Familiar surface, new primitives.

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03 · Researchers

Review the post-quantum security model.

Audit the ML-DSA integration and the protocol-level choices behind the larger post-quantum signatures. Comments and issues welcome.

Coming soon
The network

A measured path to a quantum-safe chain.

Phase 01

Specification

Protocol design built on NIST-standardized post-quantum signatures.

Complete
Phase 02

Testnet

Public test network, reference wallets and third-party security audits.

● Live now
Phase 03

Mainnet

Genesis launch with full quantum-resistant signing across the network.

Upcoming
Phase 04

Ecosystem

Exchange, custody and institutional integrations for the post-quantum era.

Planned
Get started

Be ready before quantum is.

Spin up a quantum-safe wallet on testnet or talk to us about institutional custody. The transition starts today.

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