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Morning Edition · Saturday, October 10, 2026Published at 1:48 AM EDT · New York
Ethereum researcher Justin Drake urges "bunker mode" over AI risk to wallet signatures, and a Bitcoin Core developer responds
Drake argues that mathematical advances driven by artificial intelligence (AI) could break the elliptic-curve signatures securing Bitcoin and Ethereum within months rather than years. No classical attack of that kind has been demonstrated yet.
Justin Drake, a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, has spent years warning that quantum computers could break the signatures that protect crypto wallets. He now argues that artificial intelligence (AI) could break those signatures befor…
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AI Becomes a Contested Input to Crypto's Security Assumptions
Claims that advancing AI capability undermines blockchain cryptographic and mining security keep entering mainstream crypto debate, and each is met with the counterargument that the same capability accelerates formal verification and defensive auditing, so AI becomes a recurring two-sided variable in how the market prices protocol security rather than a settled threat.
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