🧊 Developers have proposed to freeze bitcoins vulnerable to quantum hacking
🔧 What is known:
— Researchers from the MIT & IC3 project believe: 4 million BTC (≈$240 billion) are at risk of being hacked by quantum computers;
— These coins are stored at addresses without multi-signature protection or with known public keys;
— Proposal: freeze such UTXOs and transfer them to secure addresses through a consensus upgrade;
— Mechanism — soft fork with quantum resistance verification;
— The developers themselves call it "proactive protection" until quantum attacks become a reality.
🧠 Conclusion:
The quantum threat is not science fiction, but a matter of time. If the proposal is accepted, it will set a precedent for interference in the "sacred" code of Bitcoin. But it may be a necessary step.
