cointelegraph.comarticleVitalik Buterin backs crypto ‘bunker mode’ amid rapid AI math advances
Ethereum researcher Justin Drake, backed by Vitalik Buterin, warns that rapid AI progress in mathematics (citing OpenAI's recent batch of math findings and a 10,000-agent solve of Navier-Stokes) could break ECDSA-based wallet signatures before quantum computers ever do, and that lattice-based post-quantum schemes may not be safe either. They recommend a controlled 'bunker mode' migration of crypto holdings to fresh addresses whose public keys have never been exposed on-chain, while cautioning that botched migrations carry their own risk.
TL;DR Buterin and Drake warn AI-driven math breakthroughs could crack ECDSA (and maybe lattice crypto) before quantum computing does, urging gradual migration to unexposed wallet addresses.
Organisations named here
- Dragonfly
- Haseeb Qureshi
- Justin Drake
- Vitalik Buterin
Technologies named here
- Ethereum wallets using ECDSA for private-key security
- Lattice-based cryptography systems
- Ethereum
- OpenAI
- ECDSA
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