
EU Supervisors Flag Quantum Risk to Blockchains in Autumn Report
The joint EBA, ESMA and EIOPA report says the risk could arrive before quantum computing is commercially useful. Estimates of exposed bitcoin do not agree.
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The joint EBA, ESMA and EIOPA report says the risk could arrive before quantum computing is commercially useful. Estimates of exposed bitcoin do not agree.

Version 32.0rc1 was tagged on 14 September with a 10 October release in view. Parallel validation, a mempool fee estimator and two security fixes.

A crowdsourced challenge cut the estimated quantum resources for a core step in attacking secp256k1 by 86%. The authors say it is not an attack.

The maintenance release stops the chainstate database from rewriting itself repeatedly, closes a PrivateBroadcast clearnet leak, and credits 20 contributors.