Brink grantee conduition presented a map of the post-quantum Bitcoin landscape to Brink engineers, focusing on how the various proposals interact with each other.
In his presentation, he discussed:
- Trade-offs between post-quantum output types like P2MR (BIP360), P2TR v2, and P2TR hash
- Quantum canaries and tripwires as on-chain oracles for Q-day
- Freezing, ignoring, or rate-limiting Satoshi-era coins with proposals like Hourglass
- Rescue protocols using commit/reveal or zero-knowledge proofs
- Hash-based (SHRINCS), lattice-based, and isogeny-based signature schemes
- Elliptic curve optimizations like cross-input signature aggregation (CISA) and public key recovery
- Q&A with the audience
This discussion was recorded on August 14, 2026.
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