AI Agents Are Racing to Make Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Cheap—And Winning
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An AI-assisted coding challenge run by StarkWare, Yukon Research, and Eigen Labs brought the estimated compute cost of preparing a quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction down from about $320 to roughly the mid-$60s. One piece gives the lower figure as about $67, while another later dashboard reading shows $63 under a simulated 100-RTX 3090 setup. The estimate refers to GPU computation rather than a Bitcoin transaction fee.
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Developers watching quantum-safe Bitcoin tooling would notice that the compute estimate for preparing one of these transactions is now much lower than before, and that AI models were the top performers in the contest. The practical effect today is on the cost of the build process, not on a user-facing Bitcoin payment amount.
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| When | What happened | Figure |
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| 43 days ago | A week of AI coding cut a quantum-safe bitcoin transaction estimate from $320 to $66 event | 1 actors in common · 2 news media |