Neha Narula

Yesterday Liquid, a federated sidechain created by Blockstream, was compromised and 4,000 BTC was taken from its bridge by a whitehat hacker: We are aware of a security incident on @Liquid_BTC.

I felt kind of guilty about my last post, so I have spent a bit of time thinking about post-quantum Bitcoin.

Bitcoin’s signatures are broken if a cryptographically-relevant quantum computer (CRQC) were to appear tomorrow.1 Bitcoin requires changes both to its code and to everyone’s wallets (at least a soft fork and many users moving coins to different types of a…

The following are remarks I gave at the 2025 DC Privacy Summit.

I have been doing a deep dive on how money is defined and how it works.

Ark is a design to scale payments on Bitcoin.

Gold vaults A year ago I toured the gold vault beneath the New York Fed.

The term “stablecoin” typically refers to tokens issued on a blockchain which are designed to maintain a stable value with respect to an existing currency, for example the dollar.