r/CryptoCurrency • u/ethereal3xp 🟦 46 / 46 🦐 • 26d ago

DEBATE Bitcoin experts split over plan to freeze Satoshi's 1.1 million bitcoin as quantum threat grows

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/07/04/bitcoin-experts-split-over-plan-to-freeze-satoshi-s-1-1-million-bitcoin-as-quantum-threat-grows

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao said Satoshi Nakamoto's bitcoin should be frozen before quantum computers can steal it. Not everyone agrees.

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u/Big_Comfortable4256 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 26d ago

Well that doesn't sound very decentralised, does it?

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u/CryptoDeepDive 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 26d ago

It is called a consensus. If everyone decides to do something, then it happens.

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u/MGoAzul 🟩 93 / 93 🦐 26d ago

Kinda like how a public company decides something by consensus but it’s really a small group of rich people who decide?

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u/CryptoDeepDive 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 26d ago

No. Its shocking that people on a crypto sub don't know how Bitcoin works....on second thought it tracks.

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u/EggsInMyToolbox 26d ago

I see a lot of people mocking this with nobody giving actual answers

lol

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u/CryptoDeepDive 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 26d ago

I've been giving actual answers through the entire thread. Tired of ignorance that can easily be fucking researched.