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- 1Bitcoin Taproot debate: exposed keys and quantum risk●Taproot: not your public key hashes, totalitarian state CRQCs' coins # Bitcoin
A Bitcoin discussion is arguing that Taproot's design, which places full public keys on-chain instead of hashes, could leave those coins exposed to cryptographically relevant quantum computers, potentially including machines held by authoritarian states able to raid such funds. Critics counter that hash-based outputs offer some quantum protection, and the exchange is feeding wider debate about Taproot's security trade-offs and quantum-resistance of Bitcoin.