Strategy, the business intelligence firm that holds one of the largest corporate bitcoin treasuries, is preparing a dedicated Bitcoin Security Program to deal with long term risks from quantum computing. On the company’s latest earnings call, Executive Chairman Michael Saylor said the initiative is meant to strengthen the cryptographic resilience of the Bitcoin network as quantum hardware advances, not to respond to any immediate emergency. The program will focus on research, tooling and potential upgrade paths that could protect Bitcoin’s core signature scheme if quantum attacks become realistic.
Saylor explained that Strategy plans to coordinate with what he called the global cybersecurity community, the global crypto security community and the global Bitcoin security committee. The idea is to help organize work on quantum resistant cryptography rather than trying to dictate changes alone. He stressed that Bitcoin’s current elliptic curve signatures are considered safe for now, but acknowledged that in theory a sufficiently powerful quantum computer running Shor’s algorithm could crack them. That concern already drives a wave of post quantum research, since many widely used public key algorithms across finance and the internet share the same weakness.
Part of the effort will be to map out which coins are most exposed and how they might be migrated in the future. Studies cited in the discussion estimate that roughly a quarter of all bitcoin could be at higher risk, especially early pay to public key outputs and addresses where the public key has already been revealed on chain. Strategy’s program is expected to explore quantum resistant signature schemes, risk measurement frameworks and practical transition options that wallet providers and infrastructure operators could adopt if the community decides to move. It may also provide funding and coordination support for ongoing post quantum cryptography work that is relevant to Bitcoin.
Even so, Saylor pushed back against panic. He described quantum worries as another round in a long history of fear, uncertainty and doubt around Bitcoin, and said most experts still see meaningful quantum threats as ten or more years away. In his view the right response is careful planning rather than rushed changes that might introduce new vulnerabilities. Any protocol level upgrade, he said, would need broad global consensus among developers, miners, companies and users, and would likely make Bitcoin stronger once it is deployed. Strategy’s move puts a large corporate holder at the center of that planning process and signals that post quantum security for Bitcoin is moving from abstract debate into structured preparation.





































































































