The Bitcoin community continues to debate whether allowing the recovery of lost BTC by hackers using quantum computers would be ethical.
Jameson Lopp, the chief security officer at Bitcoin (BTC) custody company Casa, recently argued against allowing quantum recovery of lost BTC and said that burning these coins to protect the integrity of the protocol was the preferable option.
According to Lopp, allowing individuals or institutions with quantum computers to recover lost coins violates the Bitcoin network’s properties of censorship resistance, transaction immutability, and conservatism.
In a March 16 article, the crypto executive wrote that allowing quantum recovery is not good for anyone. Lopp added:
