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Ethereum researcher's AI security warning stirs debate as bitcoin extends slide: Crypto Markets Today
- Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake urged the industry to "calmly begin planning" for "bunker mode," a controlled shift of holdings to new addresses whose public keys stay hidden behind a hash, in a post viewed almost 4 million times.
- Drake argued that AI-driven mathematical advances make it reasonable to brace for a break of ECDSA signatures securing Bitcoin and Ether wallets in "months not years," citing a batch of 722 mathematical results released by OpenAI this week.
- Critics pushed back, with Helius's Mert Mumtaz calling the suggestion "an unnecessarily performative post," while Coinbase cryptography lead Yehuda Lindell said there is "no evidence whatsoever pointing to a break of decades old hardness assumptions."
- Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin advised against scrambling to move funds today, though he acknowledged AI-accelerated math risks should be taken seriously, cautioning that mass migration could create operational mistakes risking fund loss.
- Some networks promoting quantum-resistant cryptography saw gains following the post, while Jacob Creech argued Solana users do not need bunker mode because its keys derive from a hashed seed never exposed onchain.
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🚨 Jameson Lopp said the fear that AI will break Bitcoin encryption in the short term is exaggerated. 📌 Lopp argued that the real risk lies in software and wallet errors within the $BTC ecosystem. 🤖 Justin Drake and Haseeb Qureshi suggested that new models could create a risk for ECDSA measured in months. 🔐 To date, no confirmed incident of active ECDSA keys being cracked has been recorded. Read More: Bitcoin developer Jameson Lopp says AI pa…
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