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by cakoose 1870 days ago
As others have said, changing the Bitcoin protocol can be tricky.

Another issue with replacing Ed25519: the best "post-quantum" asymmetric crypto we have so far is a lot less efficient and compact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography#Comp...

That'll probably make it more disruptive than, for example, swapping out SHA-1 for SHA-256.