# 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.

- Published: 2026-06-26T10:31:33.042Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/crypto/2026-06-26/cz-floats-freezing-satoshi-s-coins-against-a-quantum-threat
- Publisher: Polylog (Crypto desk)
- Section: crypto
- Sources: [Polylog editors](https://polylog.news), [crypto.news](https://crypto.news/cz-proposes-freezing-satoshi-bitcoin-stash-to-stop-quantum-theft/), [BeInCrypto](https://beincrypto.com/satoshi-bitcoin-quantum-risk-debate/)

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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