**Quantum Computing Is Getting Closer, Can Satoshi's Wallet Be Hacked?**

The rapidly developing quantum computing poses a potential threat to Bitcoin. However, Tether's CEO, Paolo Ardoino, stated that this threat is still far off and will not change its total supply.

When quantum technology is ready, users who still have access to their wallets will move coins to "quantum-resistant" addresses, keeping their assets safe.

In such a scenario, only Bitcoin in wallets that are truly lost or inaccessible, including around 1 million $BTC believed to belong to Satoshi, could potentially be hacked and re-enter circulation.

Crypto Trader Skull supports this view, asserting that Bitcoin's cryptography could evolve before that threat arrives.

Satoshi's early wallets containing about 1.1 million $BTC are considered very secure because Bitcoin's cryptographic protection remains strong.

Although most Satoshi addresses use an old format that displays the public key on the blockchain, ECDSA security with the secp256k1 curve still provides a protection level equivalent to 128-bit. This makes brute-forcing the private key practically impossible.

There has been no historical bug that ever leaked Satoshi's private keys, and even super-fast hypothetical computers would take longer than the age of the universe to guess them.

The most realistic threat is quantum computers, as Shor's algorithm can break ECDSA.

However, the quantum technology required is still very far off, requiring millions of physical qubits that have yet to be achieved. The estimate for a real threat may not appear until 2029–2033.

If a large quantum computer does indeed emerge, not only Satoshi's wallet is at risk, but all old Bitcoin addresses. At that point, the network will almost certainly perform an emergency upgrade.

So, Satoshi can only be hacked if a significant quantum leap occurs and Bitcoin fails to adapt, two things that are highly unlikely to happen simultaneously.