Bitcoin just got a quantum survival plan, and it can save everyone's coins except Satoshi's 1.1 million BTC worth over $70 billion, which can't be rescued.
And here's the whole story. WHY ?
The Problem:
→ Every time you spend bitcoin, your public key gets exposed on-chain, forever which is a feature in itself
→ But a strong enough quantum computer can crack exposed keys and drain those wallets
→ Current estimates, 34% of all bitcoin roughly $420B, which is 6.5M BTC sits exposed today
→ Attackers can collect keys now and crack them later & you might not even know the attack happened
The fix, BIP-361 proposal (drafted by @lopp and 5 co-authors, live on Bitcoin's github).
Think of this as condemning a building in two steps.
→ Step one 3 years in: old vulnerable addresses stop accepting deposits. You can still move coins OUT to new quantum-safe addresses, but nothing new goes IN so the at-risk pile stops growing
→ Step two 5 years in: moving old coins now needs an extra proof that you're the real owner, because by then a quantum attacker with your cracked key looks exactly like you
→ Can't produce the proof, or never migrated? your coins are stuck & that's the freeze
And the rescue tool, just unveiled by @projecteleven, answers the obvious question, how do you prove you're the real owner and not a quantum thief ?
→ Your seed phrase, the 12 or 24 words, sits above your keys, and quantum computers can't crack it
→ The tool lets you mathematically prove "I know this wallet's seed" without ever revealing it. Real owner passes, attacker fails
→ Runs in a quarter of a second on a laptop, and covers basically every seed-phrase wallet, which is everything made since 2012
But Why Satoshi's coins are the exception ?
→ Satoshi's coins were mined in 2009, before seed phrases existed
→ Every key was generated independently, there's no seed for the proof to verify
→ Nothing to prove, nothing to rescue. Same for many of bitcoin's oldest dormant or OG wallets here
So every modern holder can migrate but the oldest stack in existence can't. So that leaves one choice, freeze Satoshi's coins forever or leave them as a $70B bounty for whoever builds the quantum computer first.
And here's the part that gets me. The proposal quotes Satoshi himself to justify it "lost coins only make everyone else's coins worth slightly more. Think of it as a donation to everyone"
So they're using the man's own words to freeze his coins.
Though this is still a draft with no activation date & rescue tool are audited. But this is the biggest debate bitcoin has had since the blocksize wars, and very few are noticing it.
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Absolutely #shocking expose on the Ram Mandir Robbery case!
Accountant Mahipal Singh has reportedly submitted proofs of 2200 cr scam in the Ram Mandir construction
Actual cost of construction: Rs 800 cr
Amount spent by RSS controlled mandir trust : Rs 2200 crore
1400 crore excess amount was spent.. !!
Means there were massive kick backs to trust members ??
And remember most of the construction work was given to Mslms by rss trust monitored by PMO.
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🚨NEW: The @SECGov just updated its crypto FAQ on token buybacks to add a stipulation that if there is no central party behind those token buybacks, then this arrangement likely does not constitute an investment contract.
It comes following comments from @a16zcrypto General Counsel and Head of Policy @milesjennings last week that the prior wording could “empower an issuer to announce the buyback program without that announcement then creating an investment contract.”