Bitcoin’s Security & Quantum Risks—and the Future of Satoshi’s Coins | with Jameson Lopp

“Most people don’t think about security until it’s too late,” says the Casa co-founder and CSO.

One of the most prolific thought-leaders in Bitcoin security and privacy, there are few people who understand the nuances of Bitcoin security quite as deeply - not to mention the OPSEC practices required to protect against wrench attacks, for instance, which are rising globally as Bitcoin price increases.

More recently, Lopp has turned his attention to mitigating Bitcoin’s quantum vulnerabilities, including market risks associated with quantum-vulnerable Satoshi’s Coins + longer-term strategies for quantum-hardening of Bitcoin addresses long term.

In this special episode of Bitcoin Rails, we cover:

► Lopp’s experiences designing self-custody products at both BitGo and Casa

► The swatting attack he suffered in 2017, and the radical steps he’s taken to secure his home location since

► The ‘quantum computing’ challenge for Bitcoin and its impacts on Satoshi’s Coins

► How the network may respond to QCs in the face of ossification and why QC preparation may be the hardest governance test the network has ever faced

This episode is powered by:

▻ Best In Slot, the leading API for Ordinals and BRC20 data aggregation and indexing

▻ Spark, a statechains implementation leading the path towards institutional adoption of Bitcoin-powered payments

▻ Citrea, the leading Bitcoin Rollup technology and contributor to the BitVM alliance.

📌 Timestamps

00:00 – Intro: Quantum Computing Meets Bitcoin

00:19 – Jameson Lopp on the Bitcoin Rails

00:53 – The Quantum Threat to Bitcoin Security

06:32 – Lopp’s Path into Bitcoin & Security

12:58 – The Swatting Attack During the Block Size Wars

25:28 – Could Quantum Crack Satoshi’s Coins?

43:55 – Announcements & Sponsors Messages

45:30 – Building Bitcoin’s Quantum Resistance

47:00 – QBTC and the Push for Quantum-Resistant Bitcoin

48:43 – Why Changing Bitcoin Is So Hard

51:19 – Email Protocols, Ossification, and Bitcoin’s Future

01:01:53 – A Roadmap for Quantum Resistance