OUR NEWS AND BLOG

First post-quantum cryptography approval from NIST..

This is a short but very important update for the project. In mid-2016 the idea for a fully post-quantum secure ledger was conceived and one of the really tough decisions was which signature scheme to use. Eventually XMSS was chosen for it’s cryptographic properties — but this was not an easy choice given it is stateful and requires significant computation prior to first use. A small number of other projects utilise variants of one-time hash-based signatures but QRL is the only crypto asset or blockchain which uses XMSS to protect the entire ledger.

Video Interview with Know The Coin

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Adam sat down with Pauline from ChangeNOW to discuss QRL and Blockchain

Last Week In QRL 11/26–12/2

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Development Updates, New Interview Released, Changing Format

Decentralised voting and trustless autonomous hard forking

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Back in 2012/3 when I first became obsessed with bitcoin it was obvious to me there were many more applications than value transfer for bitcoin-like systems to improve the world. Chief among these was decentralised voting for use in provably fair and secure political elections. This was long before the QRL existed and even before the consensus related issues around bitcoin and the block-size fiasco.