SharpLink CEO: Satoshi Nakamoto may return when Bitcoin faces existential threat due to quantum computing
Source: BlockBeats
Time: 2025-09-07 22:46:10
According to BlockBeats, on September 7, according to Decrypt, Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto has been hiding without a trace since leaving the last sentence "I have turned to something else" in 2011. However, SharpLink Gaming co-CEO Joseph Chalom has put forward a "bold conjecture": Satoshi Nakamoto may show up once Bitcoin faces an existential threat due to quantum computing. Some experts believe that quantum computing may become a "existence crisis" for Bitcoin in the next decade. The Bitcoin community has begun to discuss how to make the network equipped with quantum protection capabilities. To this end, some people proposed to achieve quantum resistance through hard forks, and some people suggested freezing Bitcoins held by Satoshi Nakamoto, which are vulnerable to quantum attacks. "I have a crazy idea that in the next five to ten years, when the Bitcoin network needs to be quantum-resistant, there will be some extremely important decisions around standards and encryption. For example, whether to hard fork the protocol and how to deal with long-dormant wallets. This is a matter of huge amounts of money and will not be easily overlooked." He added that the theory has no factual basis, and if his theory is correct, he believes that Satoshi Nakamoto will appear through "some early, long-term inactive OG accounts."