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Re: Why people sending transitions to Satoshi's first bitcoin wallet
by
o_e_l_e_o
on 29/12/2021, 12:38:58 UTC
⭐ Merited by Welsh (4)
Do you think that quantum computer will come into existence in the nearest future
Talking about quantum computers capable of solving the ECDLP and recovering/stealing lost coins. In the near future? Absolutely not. At some point in the future? Almost certainly.

Only coins which have been sent to outputs which cannot be spent, such as OP_RETURN outputs, are provably lost. Coins sent to burn addresses or lost addresses with no known private keys are not provably lost and may be recovered in the future. It will take decades or more, but we cannot say these coins are "frozen forever", as OP did.