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'Bunker Mode' AI Warning Disputed
Ethereum Researcher Urges 'Bunker Mode' Over AI Risk to Wallet Cryptography — Cryptographers Push Back
Experts are sharply divided over how urgently AI and quantum advances threaten existing blockchain wallet cryptography.
Ethereum researcher Justin Drake urged the crypto industry into "bunker mode," warning that in a worst case AI could crack the elliptic-curve signatures securing wallets within months and advising large holders to migrate to fresh addresses — remarks coverage tied to recent AI mathematics results. Vitalik Buterin said AI could also accelerate attacks on post-quantum schemes but advised against rushed fund migrations. Cryptographers publicly disputed the framing. No demonstrated break of the underlying mathematics exists.
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