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Morning Edition · Friday, June 26, 2026Published at 6:31 AM EDT · New York
CZ Floats Freezing Satoshi's Coins Against a Quantum Threat, Reopening Bitcoin's Immutability Debate
The Binance founder suggested a fork or vote could lock about a million dormant bitcoin if quantum computers ever threaten old addresses, and critics call that a breach of Bitcoin's core promise.
Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance, raised the idea of freezing the roughly one million bitcoin attributed to Bitcoin's pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, as a safeguard if quantum computers ever threaten the network's cryptography…
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