As long as a ZK recovery path is provided, this stays true to the ethos. The ethos was never“if it breaks we won’t fix it”. Responsible handling of this issue does not have to distort the ledger.

OTOH, if they freeze vulnerable wallets and don’t provide a recovery path, then Bitcoin becomes just another, less useful ethereum where intervention in the ledger is to be expected.

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cmrx64 17 hours ago | parent [-]

how do you secure this zk recovery path? can’t prove that only the hash of the pubkey was ever revealed (and thus that the secret key couldn’t be computed from the pubkey — as it was not available)

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K0balt 17 hours ago | parent [-]

Idk, it’s also confusing to me. “I have been told” by someone who knows a lot more about cryptography than most people (including me) that it should be possible to, but I can’t see how because I suppose if you could spend the coins it means you must have the private key? But maybe it is actually possible to spend the coins without reverse engineering the actual private key, but rather only by faking the signature?

IDK.

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