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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.
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 factsMining difficulty and parameters →
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FIPS 204
NIST-standardized signatures
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.
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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.
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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.
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
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dilithium-bech32anddilithium-legacyaddress formats - Cryptographic agility — ready to adopt new NIST PQC standards
# 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.
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Download the release
Grab the latest testnet release for your platform.
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Configure your node
Follow the mining guide — extraction, daemon config, and pool connection in one place.
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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.
View on GitHub →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 soonThe network
The path to a quantum-safe store of value.
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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