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Tidecoin: A Post-Quantum Secure Peer-to-Peer Cryptocurrency. Version 2.0 — February 2026. Falcon-512 signatures, PQHD wallet, ML-KEM-512 transport, scrypt merged mining. Built on Bitcoin Core v30.

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A post-quantum secure peer-to-peer cryptocurrency

Tidecoin is a decentralized cryptocurrency engineered from genesis to resist attacks from both classical and quantum computers. While Bitcoin and virtually all major blockchains rely on ECDSA — which Shor's algorithm will break once sufficiently powerful quantum computers exist — Tidecoin replaces ECDSA entirely with NIST-standardized post-quantum signature schemes: Falcon-512/1024 and ML-DSA-44/65/87. Built on Bitcoin Core v30, the network has been in continuous operation since December 27, 2020 — over five years of uninterrupted block production with zero security incidents.

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version·v2.0published·February 2026license·CC-BY-SA-4.0type·ScholarlyArticle
01 · SECTIONS
15Chapters
02 · WORDS
~8KFull length
03 · CITATIONS
40+Inline references
04 · TABLES
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Table of Contents

01Introduction02The Quantum Threat to Cryptocurrency03Design Philosophy04Post-Quantum Signature Schemes05PQHD: Post-Quantum Hierarchical Deterministic Wallet06Consensus Mechanism and Proof-of-Work07Script System Extensions08Post-Quantum Peer-to-Peer Transport09Auxiliary Proof-of-Work (Merged Mining)10Economic Model11Network Parameters12Security Analysis13Design Positioning14Conclusion15References
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01@techreport{tidecoin2026,
02title = {Tidecoin: A Post-Quantum Secure Peer-to-Peer Cryptocurrency},
03version = {2.0},
04year = {2026},
05month = {February},
06url = {https://tidecoin.org/whitepaper},
07institution = {Tidecoin Project},
08}
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Tidecoin Whitepaper v2.0 — Post-Quantum Cryptocurrency