Hi all,

I's like to officially propose P2WOTS (Pay-to-Winternitz-One-Time-Signature), a new native Bitcoin output type using witness version three. It provides post quantum security using only SHA-256 and contains no elliptic curve key material anywhere.

The 34 byte scriptPubKey commits to a Merkle Key Tree over 64 independent WOTS+ one time key pairs.
This construction directly solves the WOTS+ one time signing limitation, each spend consumes a fresh independent slot key, making address reuse safe without ever violating the one time property.

BIP draft PR:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/2194

Looking forward to technical feedback from the community.

Regards,
Opus Lux

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