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Tidecoin Whitepaper

Tidecoin: A Post-Quantum Secure Peer-to-Peer Cryptocurrency. Version 2.0 — February 2026.

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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 post-quantum signature schemes from the NIST PQC process: Falcon-512/1024 and ML-DSA-44/65/87. Built on Bitcoin Core, the network has been in continuous operation since December 27, 2020.

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version·v2.0published·February 2026
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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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The PDF above is the current authoritative version. Source markdown lives in the Tidecoin Core repository at doc/whitepaper.md.

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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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