TechFlow reports that on December 10, Emin Gün Sirer, founder and CEO of Ava Labs, posted on X stating that Satoshi Nakamoto's 1 million bitcoins may be vulnerable to quantum threats. The early bitcoins owned by Satoshi were stored using the very old "Pay-to-Public-Key" (P2PK) format, which exposes the public key. Modern Bitcoin wallets or modern systems like Avalanche do not use P2PK; however, it was indeed used in Bitcoin’s early days.
Therefore, as quantum threats grow, the Bitcoin community might need to consider preventive measures, such as freezing Satoshi Nakamoto’s 1 million bitcoins or setting a deadline for all UTXOs using the P2PK format.
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