BitVM bridges unlock greater programmability and payments use cases for Bitcoin, but they currently rely on elliptic curve operations, which aren't secure in a post-quantum world. At @tabconf, @AlpenLabs Research Engineer Christian Lewe (@uncomputab1e) explained why the infrastructure startup is researching post-quantum alternatives for their garbled circuits bridge: "Groth16 is state of the art. It's great. Everybody loves this... but it's not post-quantum secure, so we cannot use it." Full quantum resistance on Bitcoin's base layer will likely require a soft fork. But teams are prepping now to ensure BitVM bridges are ready for a full post-quantum solution when that day comes. Full presentation to follow TABConf soon.

As AI introduces new threats to Bitcoin’s ecosystem, independent developers are using those same tools to investigate, test, and secure infrastructure. Speaking to a crowded audience during the Red Team panel at @tabconf, AnchorWatch CEO Rob Hamilton highlighted the importance of community-driven security research: "No one's coming to help us. We all just started doing this stuff because we care about Bitcoin, we wanted to start doing something, and I think it's cool that Bitcoin has these organic immune responses that come step in to help people out." From left, panelists and Red Team heroes include: @brian_trollz, @reardencode, @Rob1Ham, @PortlandHODL, @KLoaec, @stutxo

Eric Price, Senior Pool Engineer & Researcher at MARA, makes the case at @tabconf that when you partially throttle the amount of power directed towards miners instead of taking a binary off-and-on approach, that essentially gives you greater visibility into the overall state of your mining fleet. "We can operate our fleet more efficiently in a dynamic, changing environment," Price explains. "The more direct benefit is having full observability of the fleet at all times. In the presence of changes underlying the fleet — the rate of hashing, electricity flow, heat — these factors cause us to lose visibility when the system is under an adverse state."