Dossier
Satoshi's coins
Coverage of Satoshi's coins in the Nexus archive.
- YSK: The proposal to freeze Satoshi's coins and invalidate old transaction signatures is actually a SOFT FORK. Soft Forks can still cause reorgs and chain splits, and they can cause new clients to be incompatible with old clients.
The article clarifies that soft forks, like the proposed BIP-361, can cause chain splits and incompatibility despite being backward-compatible with old clients. It challenges common misconceptions about hard and soft forks, emphasizing that both can disrupt the blockchain, though soft forks add technical complexity.
- Cardano's Charles Hoskinson says Bitcoin's quantum fix is a hard fork that can't save Satoshi's coins
Cardano's co-founder Charles Hoskinson claims Bitcoin's proposed quantum fix requires a hard fork and would fail to protect Satoshi's original coins. He argues the solution is insufficient to address quantum computing threats to Bitcoin's security.