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Ava Labs founder: Satoshi Nakamoto’s 1 million Bitcoins may have quantum threat issues
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2024-12-10 11:03 683
According to news on December 10, Ava Labs founder Emin Gün Sirer tweeted that Satoshi Nakamoto’s 1 million Bitcoins may have quantum threat issues. Early Bitcoin used the very old Pay-To-Public-Key format, which leaked the public key and gave attackers time to delve into it, which is the source of all crypto bounties. Modern systems like modern Bitcoin wallets or Avalanche don't use P2PK, but it did exist in the early days of Bitcoin. Therefore, as the quantum threat intensifies, the Bitcoin community may want to consider freezing Satoshi Nakamoto's 1 million Bitcoins, or more generally, provide a final date and freeze all Bitcoins on P2PK UTXOs.
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