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CZ recently made a highly controversial Bitcoin proposal that might be more worth discussing than it seems. CZ suggested: If Satoshi's BTC hasn’t moved in a year, should we consider freezing it? At the time, many people immediately lashed out: "Who gave you the right to touch someone else's Bitcoin?" "This goes against the spirit of Bitcoin." "What about 'Not your keys, not your coins'?" But the Coldcard incident brought a long-ignored issue back to the surface: "BTC that hasn’t moved for decades doesn’t mean it’s forever safe." With the continuous development of AI, hardware computing power, and future quantum computing, The truly worrying extreme scenario is— What if one day, Satoshi’s private keys are actually cracked or leaked? The market generally estimates that BTC associated with Satoshi amounts to about 1 million coins. At today’s prices, That’s Bitcoin worth tens of billions of dollars. The scariest part isn’t these BTC being sold off. It’s the market suddenly realizing: "Even Satoshi’s coins aren’t safe." That could directly shake the entire confidence in Bitcoin’s security. Of course, directly "freezing Satoshi’s BTC" is highly controversial, and it’s not something CZ can achieve with just one statement. It might even violate Bitcoin’s core principle of censorship resistance. But what he really brought up is a question worth the entire crypto community’s consideration: If future technology truly has the ability to threaten early Bitcoin addresses— Should we: Protect those dormant BTC? Or stick to: Code is law, even if they ultimately get stolen by hackers? This could be one of the most important debates for Bitcoin in the next decade. ₿

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