Quantum‑resistant BIP-360 with Pay-to-Merkle-Root merged into Bitcoin repository on February 11

On February 11, Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 360, which introduces the quantum-resistant Pay-to-Merkle-Root (P2MR) output type, was merged into the official Bitcoin BIP repository. The proposal aims to mitigate key-path vulnerabilities in Taproot and other exposed address formats by relying on Merkle-root commitments instead of on-chain public keys, amid forecasts that advancing quantum computers could break Bitcoin's ECDSA within a few years.