{"id":584008,"date":"2026-04-15T14:03:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=806342"},"modified":"2026-04-15T14:03:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:03:25","slug":"bitcoin-developers-propose-freezing-coins-that-skip-quantum-safe-migration-under-bip-361","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/bitcoin-developers-propose-freezing-coins-that-skip-quantum-safe-migration-under-bip-361\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Developers Propose Freezing Coins That Skip Quantum-Safe Migration Under BIP-361"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bitcoin-developers-propose-freezing-coins-that-skip-quantum-safe-migration-under-bip-361-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>A draft proposal circulating among Bitcoin developers would give holders roughly five years to move their coins to quantum-resistant addresses or watch them become permanently unspendable on the network. Key Takeaways: BIP-361, co-authored by Casa CTO Jameson Lopp, proposes freezing Bitcoin in legacy addresses within 5 years of activation. Over 34% of all Bitcoin has [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A draft proposal circulating among Bitcoin developers would give holders roughly five years to move their coins to quantum-resistant addresses or watch them become permanently unspendable on the network. Key Takeaways: BIP-361, co-authored by Casa CTO Jameson Lopp, proposes freezing Bitcoin in legacy addresses within 5 years of activation. Over 34% of all Bitcoin has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":584009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-584008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}