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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Lost coins vulnerable to theft in the future?
by
Adam_xx
on 20/06/2022, 09:42:47 UTC
It is difficult for me to imagine that a consensus on this would be somehow reached. I have been asking this theoretical question for a couple of months now and the community is divided almost like 50/50. Even the developers have different opinions (Pieter Wuille/Adam Back would probably prefer locking the coins, Jimmy Song favors letting them be stolen, etc.). So if the situation occurs anytime in the future there will be a huge controversy. If attacking the keys is slow the result would be probably "just" a bear market. If it is fast and huge amount of coins will flood the market I am afraid it would really endanger the existence of Bitcoin.