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Bitcoin Core's SecP256K1 pull request #1884 marked Jonas Nick's departure after seven years of maintaining the critical cryptographic library. Marty and Matt laud his foundational work for Bitcoin's security.
Matt clarifies that Jonas Nick is not leaving Bitcoin entirely but shifting focus. He is reportedly engaged in research to make Bitcoin quantum resistant by updating its ECDSA signature scheme.
Blockstream researchers Jonas Nick and Mikel Kudenov published a paper on hash-based, quantum-resistant signature schemes for Bitcoin, exploring trade-offs for a potential new address type.
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