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by astrange 1432 days ago
Ah, I had the details wrong. If there’s a signed transaction from a wallet, then you have the compressed public key and it’s not quantum safe.

But if the funds are sent to a new wallet address and there’s no transactions signed by that wallet yet, it can’t be forged without also reversing the hash that created the address.

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Yes, it was a good idea to do that. I didn't realize that addresses were essentially a hash of the public key, but it makes sense.