AmericanFortress Pitches a Soft-Fork to Freeze Satoshi's 1.1M BTC Before Quantum Computers Strike

Rickler Feed (@rickler_feed), Jul 14, 2026, 08:30 UTC

AmericanFortress Pitches a Soft-Fork to Freeze Satoshi's 1.1M BTC Before Quantum Computers Strike Satoshi's ~1.1M BTC, plus millions of other pre-BIP32 coins, sit behind public keys already exposed on chain. A proposed soft-fork would defensively freeze those wallets, shielding them from a future quantum attack. The fix is a small, BIP-style update — no hard fork needed — that would lock those exposed legacy wallets until Bitcoin's community decides their fate, while newer wallets get quantum-resistant signing by default. AmericanFortress, founded by Michal 'Mehow' Pospieszalski, a former w…

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