AI-Optimized Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Prep Now Costs Just $66

A week-long open-source challenge has significantly reduced the estimated computing cost of preparing a Quantum-Safe Bitcoin (QSB) transaction. The new estimate puts the cost at $66, down from about $320.

This reduction comes after participants used artificial intelligence programming tools to optimize two computational steps: pinning and subset selection. Pinning improved by 503% compared to the starting code, while subset selection saw a 906% increase.

The first QSB transaction was mined and confirmed on August 26, requiring approximately 3,100 GPU-hours across around 100 GPUs. The challenge focused on optimizing these computational steps before the transaction is broadcast to the Bitcoin network.