The debate around the "freezing" of Satoshi Nakamoto's wallets has moved beyond technical forums, becoming the main lever in the dispute over the future of decentralization. For Charles Hoskinson, it became a precedent to summarize Cardano's long-term strategy.
While the Bitcoin community is trying to resolve the dilemma - whether to allow quantum computers to "steal" Satoshi's coins or to "steal" them themselves through forced freezing - Hoskinson calls this the greatest validation of the value of decentralized governance, something he emphasizes with Cardano.
Satoshi's Bitcoin holdings calculated based on Patoshi pattern, Source: Arkham
Why Hoskinson believes Bitcoin's quantum panic proves Cardano's thesis
According to Charles, an attempt by Bitcoin to solve the quantum security problem through the expropriation of old addresses will split the ecosystem in two and cause "catastrophic economic damage."
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Unlike Bitcoin, where the fate of an $88.65 billion fortune is decided through chaotic debates on GitHub, Cardano entered May 2026 with on-chain governance already functioning through voting by dReps and the Constitutional Committee. That's why Hoskinson went on a rant against criticism that Cardano traded scaling for governance.
I am getting insanely tired of hearing a false narrative that we abandoned scaling in favor of governance. There was continuous effort and work from before even Shelley on scaling (for example https://t.co/qgeGxEePRb)
It was an enormously challenging problem that we relentlessly…
As the founder stresses, ready solutions already exist, such as the Leios and Peras protocols, as well as an L2 strategy based on eUTXO and Zero-Knowledge, all fully designed, but the "Start" button is in the hands of the community, and it's in everyone's hands to decide when and how to activate scaling, not just his.
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Today's Bitcoin crisis has become, for Hoskinson, proof that the scientific method and governance are not a slowdown, but an insurance mechanism.
While Bitcoin faces the choice of "freezing" 1.7 million BTC or allowing them to be hacked, Cardano demonstrates a model where such crises are resolved through a legitimate social contract and has bought the ecosystem immunity from the problems that are now literally tearing Bitcoin apart, according to Charles Hoskinson.
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