According to CoinMarketCap, Casa co-founder Jameson Lopp said upgrading the Bitcoin protocol to meet post-quantum security standards may take at least 5–10 years due to the network’s decentralized consensus model, setting a multi-year horizon for any quantum-resistant cryptography transition in BTC’s base layer, source: CoinMarketCap citing Jameson Lopp on X, Dec 22, 2025.

According to @caprioleio, he publicly asked Jameson Lopp how the community can help progress his Quantum BIP and said Bitcoin needs more coverage of the proposal, source: Charles Edwards on X, Oct 7, 2025. For traders monitoring BTC governance, the post flags active attention on a quantum-security-focused Bitcoin Improvement Proposal attributed to Lopp, source: Charles Edwards on X, Oct 7, 2025. If this proceeds via the standard BIP path, next milestones include drafting or updating a formal BIP, discussion on the bitcoin-dev mailing list, and review or testing of a reference implementation, source: Bitcoin BIPs process documentation. These steps are prerequisites for any consensus change and would precede activation method discussions, source: Bitcoin BIPs process documentation.