Up to 6.89M $BTC could be at risk.


Ki Young Ju, CEO of CryptoQuant, warns that advances in quantum computing may eventually allow private keys to be derived from public keys — putting millions of BTC in older addresses at risk.
A forced network upgrade could be required, potentially freezing ~1M BTC linked to Satoshi Nakamoto and other legacy wallets.
But that solution clashes with Bitcoin’s core ideology — and could trigger a major chain split.
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