AI-Assisted Developers Cut Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Cost Estimate to $66 in StarkWare Contest
The challenge produced 62 accepted improvements and cut the estimated computing cost by about 79%, StarkWare said.
- StarkWare reported that a weeklong optimization challenge cut the estimated GPU cost of preparing an experimental Quantum-Safe Bitcoin transaction to $66, down from approximately $320 in August.
- Participants in the Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Optimization Challenge, many using AI-assisted tools, contributed 62 accepted improvements to enhance the design against potential quantum attacks.
- Benchmarks show the leading submission checks about 881 million candidates per second, compared to roughly 146 million previously, though StarkWare notes these remain estimates from test computations.
- Described as a "last-resort measure," the QSB method remains complex and expensive, currently protecting only specific holdings rather than the entire Bitcoin network.
- Functioning within existing Bitcoin rules, the QSB design avoids requiring a network upgrade, building on the first transaction successfully confirmed in August via MARA's Slipstream service.
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Bitcoin Quantum-Safe Transaction Cost Falls to $67, StarkWare Says
The estimated computational cost to prepare a quantum-resistant Bitcoin transaction has fallen below $67, down from roughly $320 spent on the first such mainnet transaction in August, according to StarkWare. The company said the reduction followed a week of optimization work in its Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Optimization Challenge. According to a Sept. 23 update published by StarkWare, the dashboard now shows the estimated cost has dropped to $66. The…
A week of AI coding cut a quantum-safe bitcoin transaction estimate from $320 to $66
StarkWare, which conducted the research, says contest participants using AI tools made the computation about five times faster, though the $66 figure has not yet been demonstrated in another transaction mined on Bitcoin.
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The New York LedgerQuantum-Safe Bitcoin Compute Cost Falls 79% to Under $67
StarkWare says an optimization challenge it launched earlier this month has already cut the cost of preparing a quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction by 79% in benchmark testing.
The cost of protecting the bitcoin against quantum computing has fallen sharply in a few days. An open competition led by StarkWare, Yukon Research and Eigen Labs has allowed developers and agents of AI to speed up the necessary calculations. In a week, the estimate has grown from about $320 to $67 in GPU calculation. This drop shows above all how the optimization of the code can reduce the resources needed to build transactions capable of bette…
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