CZ proposes Bitcoin fork locking Satoshi's 1M coins after one year, capping supply at 20M BTC; BTC trades at $60520 amid bearish EMA structure.

Bitcoin developer proposes hard fork to reassign Satoshi Nakamoto-linked coins, sparking BTC price prediction debates amid bearish trends at $77,041.72.

According to @TO, Satoshi’s BTC is held across about 22,000 different private keys with no seed phrases or exposed public keys, and quantum computing will not break them, which he presents as a security assurance for long-term holders and traders (source: https://twitter.com/TO/status/1988382753340182907). Independent on-chain research by Sergio Demian Lerner estimates the Patoshi miner accumulated roughly 1.1 million BTC across tens of thousands of coinbase outputs in 2009–2010, consistent with a very large number of distinct keys that have remained dormant (source: https://bitslog.com/2019/04/17/the-return-of-the-dld-patoshi/). Early Bitcoin wallets did not use hierarchical deterministic seeds because BIP32 was standardized only in 2012, after Satoshi’s departure, implying non-deterministic keys rather than seed phrases (sources: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawiki, https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-guide#wallets-keys). However, not all early outputs hide public keys: many 2009 coinbase outputs used pay-to-public-key scripts that reveal public keys on-chain, whereas P2PKH hides the key until spending, which is relevant for any quantum-security assessment (source: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction#Standard_transaction_types). Current cryptographic research indicates breaking Bitcoin’s secp256k1 ECDSA would require large, fault-tolerant quantum computers far beyond today’s capabilities, so brute-force or quantum attacks are not a practical near-term threat for traders to price in (sources: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.06752, https://www.nist.gov/pqc). For trading strategy, the persistence of dormant Patoshi-pattern coins implies minimal immediate sell-pressure risk from these holdings, while any on-chain movement of such coinbase outputs would be a high-impact signal to monitor (source: https://bitslog.com/2019/04/17/the-return-of-the-dld-patoshi/).