#147 - Can Bitcoin Survive Q-Day Inside NIST PQC, ML-KEM, and the Post-Quantum Web3 Race

Podcast: Blockchain Basics: Crypto, NFTs & Web3 Explained · ELMA

Opublikowano: 2026-09-01

Modern public-key cryptography powers every digital transaction in the world—from signing a Bitcoin transaction to deploying a smart contract on Ethereum. But behind the scenes, a silent architectural countdown is underway. As quantum computing advances toward breaking the elliptic-curve algorithms (ECDSA, BLS) underpinning modern distributed ledgers, cryptographers and blockchain core developers are quietly executing the most critical upgrade in digital history. In this episode, we unpack the finalized NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) standards—including lattice-based powerhouses like ML-KEM (FIPS 203) and ML-DSA (FIPS 204)—and explore how they are being adapted to decentralized networks. We break down the real-world proposals reshap...