Cryptocurrency16 Apr 2026SEO 801 min read

Analysis: Cardano's Charles Hoskinson says Bitcoin's quantum fix is a hard fork that can'…

The Cardano founder argues BIP-361 is mislabeled as a soft fork and that its zero-knowledge recovery plan cannot rescue roughly 1.7 million pre-2013 bitcoin, i…

The Cardano founder argues BIP-361 is mislabeled as a soft fork and that its zero-knowledge recovery plan cannot rescue roughly 1.7 million pre-2013 bitcoin, including Satoshi's holdings. Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson says Bitcoin's proposed quantum defense, BIP-361, is mischaracterized as a soft fork and would in practice require a hard fork that conflicts with Bitcoin's anti–hard fork culture. He argues the plan's zero-knowledge recovery mechanism cannot protect about…

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