A week of AI coding cut a quantum-safe bitcoin transaction estimate from $320 to $66
StarkWare’s quantum-safe Bitcoin coding contest lowered the estimated GPU cost for building a transaction from about $320 in August to roughly $66 by Thursday morning. The contest ran for a week and used AI-assisted coding, and StarkWare said the participants made the computation about five times faster.
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Bitcoin developers and contest participants can see that the cost estimate for this kind of transaction is now much lower than the earlier benchmark StarkWare described. That changes what is visible in the contest dashboard today, and it gives anyone following quantum-safe Bitcoin work a new reference point to compare against.
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