🔥 CZ Drops a Controversial Proposal: Should Satoshi's 1 Million BTC $BTC Be Frozen After Quantum Resistance Upgrade?
The countdown to quantum threats is closing in, and Binance's CZ has thrown out a nuclear-level idea that could tear the Bitcoin community apart—if Bitcoin initiates a quantum resistance upgrade, there should be a 6 to 12-month "ultimatum" for addresses related to Satoshi. During this period, if these dormant Bitcoins that have been sitting for over a decade remain untouched, the new protocol should directly freeze about 1 million BTC #BTC and remove them from circulation.
The early addresses from the Satoshi era used P2PK format, with full public keys permanently exposed on-chain, making them the easiest "live targets" for quantum computers. Google's Quantum AI team's white paper from March this year shows that cracking Bitcoin's secp256k1 elliptic curve would only require about 1200 logical qubits, with a roadmap to reach 1600 by 2028 #IONQ , and even plans to launch a Blue Jay system with 2000 logical qubits by 2033 $IBM .
Opponents slam it as "stealing money to prevent theft," essentially using a protocol-level "confiscation" to defend against another potential "theft," directly undermining Bitcoin's core narrative of immutability and property rights.
The crux of this debate has never been about whether the technology can be implemented, but rather the ultimate philosophical question of governance: when faced with an imminent survival threat, should Bitcoin stick to the "absolute immutability" fundamentalist belief or pragmatically trade a "freeze" to secure the entire network against quantum attacks? CZ's proposal may not be adopted, but it has already put that hardest question on the table—if quantum computers become viable tomorrow, should we protect those 1 million dormant Bitcoins to the end, or make a bold cut? The Bitcoin community's answer will define the quality of this "digital gold" over the next decade.