🚨 Some Bitcoin could get frozen in the future.


A new proposal suggests locking certain early $BTC addresses that could become vulnerable in a quantum future.
These are older wallets where the public key is already exposed onchain which makes them easier targets if powerful quantum computers ever arrive.
The idea is to freeze these risky coins before anyone can exploit them and protect the network from a potential large-scale attack.
This mainly affects very early Bitcoin-era addresses, not regular users today.
Bitcoin isn’t waiting for the threat to show up, it’s already thinking about how to defend against it.
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