What if a quarter of the bitcoins in circulation were at risk of being stolen due to a crypto flaw? This scenario, now taken seriously, pushes Jameson Lopp and other developers to propose an unprecedented measure: freezing the BTC stored on addresses vulnerable to quantum attacks. Among them are the mythical funds of Satoshi Nakamoto. This is an explosive initiative, balancing the need for security and the questioning of the founding principles of the protocol.
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