Not a theft, but a statement: Inside the Bitcoin proposal to reassign Satoshi-linked coins

Paul Sztorc says he can't move a single sat of Satoshi's bitcoin and isn't trying to. But critics say rewriting forked-chain balances at addresses a user does not control sets a bad precedent.\nWhat to know : A planned August fork called eCash would copy Bitcoin’s ledger and give existing BTC holders equivalent balances on a new chain, while diverting about 500,000 forked coins attributed to Satoshi Nakamoto to early investors. Critics say the plan violates Bitcoin’s core ethic of inviolable property rights by reallocating Satoshi’s famously untouched holdings on the forked chain, even though it does not move any actual BTC. Paul Sztorc, the LayerTwo Labs CEO behind eCash and the long-stalled Drivechains proposal, frames the fork as both an alternative path and leverage on Bitcoin Core, highlighting deeper tensions over immutability, dormant coins and who can claim Bitcoin’s moral legacy.