# 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.

- Published: 2026-10-10T05:48:41.996Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/crypto/2026-10-10/ethereum-researcher-justin-drake-urges-bunker-mode-over-ai-r
- Publisher: Polylog (Crypto desk)
- Section: crypto
- Sources: [Bitcoin Magazine](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/videos/bitcoin-core-developer-responds-to-ai-quantum-risk), [Decrypt](https://decrypt.co/380363/ethereum-researcher-ai-break-encryption-before-quantum), [The Block](https://www.theblock.co/news/ecosystems/2026-10-07-ethereum-researcher-justin-drake-bunker-mode-planning-private-key-recovery-risk-417954), [Crypto Briefing](https://cryptobriefing.com/justin-drake-bunker-mode-ai-ecdsa/)

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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