A now-closed Bitcoin Core PR (#34695) suggested a narrowly scoped consensus change to make the Mt. Gox theft address (1Feex…) spendable via a designated recovery key, so ~79,956 BTC could be returned to creditors.
It was explicitly framed as a one-time hard fork and discussion starter. Activation was never set (inactive by default).
Predictably, the main pushback was around immutability and precedent risk (“if once, then again”).
Quick summary:
https://btcusa.com/bitcoin-core-pr-proposes-one-time-hard-fork-to-recover-79956-btc-from-mt-gox-hack-address/
PR:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/34695
Curious where people here land on this — absolute immutability vs exceptional recovery cases.
Closed Bitcoin Core PR proposed one-time fork to recover 79,956 BTC from Mt. Gox hack address
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