Grayscale says Bitcoin has post-quantum solutions but lacks governance to deploy them
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Promote with Leviathan News6.9M BTC sitting in exposed-key wallets, and the proposed fixes — burn, ignore, or rate-limit — each need the kind of consensus that took Bitcoin years just to agree on block size. BIP 360 and SPHINCS+ are technically ready, but the Satoshi coins question is where this gets ugly. Any move to freeze or burn ~1M BTC from the creator's addresses forces an immutability-first chain into an identity crisis over property rights vs. network security.
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