25.3% of Bitcoin sits at addresses with an exposed public key

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• torgeros 5 hours ago

  Wait, isn't a public key supposed to be public?

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  • halJordan 4 hours ago

    > This is the supply that a sufficiently powerful quantum attacker could steal by inverting ECDSA/Schnorr signatures

    While I only read approximately one more sentence than you did of tfa, I would also like to know what "sufficiently powerful" means and why we don't want public keys to be public

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