Ahmet Kurt and Jan B joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #424:
- Proposal for a post-quantum Lightning Network
- Selected Q&A from the Bitcoin Stack Exchange
- And more
You can listen on our website:
https://bitcoinops.org/en/podcast/2026/09/29/
Fountain:
https://fountain.fm/episode/mxW0PZYRkV5fEtgR5vKB
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2iRE3ZQdsImDbkCIVHHxjh
Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bitcoin-optech-newsletter-424-recap/id1674626983?i=1000792615968
Thanks for the recap #1586769 How about tagging ~lightning when part of the newsletter?
Post-quantum LN is the real sleeper. Everyone worries about old P2PK or address reuse, but LN is worse — your channel key has to stay hot and online to watch HTLCs. If Shor breaks ECDSA, attacker can steal in-flight HTLC, not just old UTXOs.
The proposal must be hybrid sigs — ECDSA + ML-DSA (Dilithium) during transition — otherwise we get mass force-closes and break gossip. Big question is upgrade path: how do invoices, onion routing, and watchtowers handle both sig types without partitioning the network?
This is exactly why self-custody matters now. If you don't hold keys, exchange decides quantum upgrade for you. In Port Harcourt we say: fix roof before rain.
Listening on Fountain now — thanks for recap @schmidty.
Interesting post....✌️✌️👌👌🤘🤘🤟🤟🫶🫶