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AI-assisted math research may expose weaknesses in some proposed cryptography, while future quantum computers could threaten BTC and ETH signatures. No practical break of these signatures has been shown. NIST has issued post-quantum standards, and a US Energy Department quantum contest offers up to $215M in planned funding. Ethereum and Bitcoin developers are exploring upgrades; Coinbase has outlined key-management work. How can networks plan safe wallet migration and protect older addresses?
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Quantum risk is not an emergency trade signal: the source says no practical break of BTC or ETH signatures has been shown. The harder issue is operational. Post-quantum standards and upgrade research matter only if wallet migration can reach older addresses without turning key management into a new failure point. Preparedness should be measured by migration paths, not headlines.
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just checked an old address i still control after reading that warning about AI math potentially cracking ECDSA sooner than actual quantum hardware.
most of the fixes people float still boil down to “move the funds.”
that almost never happens for anyone sitting on dormant coins...
@Americanfort_io published a construction this week that skips the move entirely.
ZKPoSP replaces the normal elliptic, curve signature with a zero knowledge proof.
it proves that you hold the seed and the full BIP32 derivation path behind an address that already exists.
format stays the same.
coins stay put.
the security rests only on SHA 256, SHA 512 and a hash based proof system, no remaining curve assumption.
QBIP 32 covers both secp256k1 and Ed25519 the same way...
i keep going back and forth.
no forced migration is the only version that could ever reach existing holders at any real scale.
but generating the proof still takes seconds.
if a wallet doesn’t make that completely invisible, the same people who never moved will never generate the proof either.
the bottleneck was always the human, not the math.
they said as much on stage at Token2049.
still reading it next to the name layer they already have running...
different problem, same instinct about reducing friction instead of adding steps.
have you looked at any of your older addresses with exposed public keys and decided whether a proof is worth waiting on, or are you just leaving them? @Americanfort_io
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Compliant privacy on public blockchains isn't a feature, it's the missing primitive.
@MehowHacks takes the stage at @token2049 on Oct 7 to make the case: privacy and compliance aren't opposites, and the chains that prove it will carry the next wave of real-world adoption.
If you're in Singapore, come say hello.
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JUST IN: Vitalik Buterin warns AI could accelerate threats to Bitcoin’s cryptography
The Ethereum co-founder says advances in AI-driven mathematics could put ECDSA security under pressure sooner than expected, urging developers to prepare for a future where today’s cryptographic keys may no longer be safe.
The future of Bitcoin isn't only about price.
It's about whether the technology protecting it can keep up with the technology changing around it.
AI is accelerating.
Quantum computing is advancing.
And at the center of the conversation sits one unforgettable number:
1,096,361 BTC.
Maybe it's just history.
Maybe it's a future question.
Either way, we should start asking before we need the answer.
Make the number impossible to ignore.
@1096361BTC 🟠
Proof of Viral.
Notes from “Quantum Tech Happy Hour” at SF Tech Week:
- People won’t ever have quantum phones, as the technology is not meant to be consumer-friendly
- Quantum is meant for exploration beyond our imaginative limits, such as new drug discovery
- Quantum technology (not necessarily computing) is already widely used, such as MRI scans
- Quantum computing and AI are not competing technologies because quantum is based on physics and AI is based on data
- Quantum computing’s ChatGPT moment will be Q-Day, when a quantum computer breaks major encryption.
- Major roadblocks for quantum computing:
- Qubits are too fragile
- Quantum advantage needs to spread to more use cases, such as drug discovery. Major gap between research and productization.
Cyber risk is immense not only for crypto but for the entire market and world
Yes, super intelligent AIs will also be the solution to these problems. There will however be damage inflicted before the world can modernize
Jaynit
Sam Altman says society will have to accept severe cyberattacks from open-source AI as the price of preserving freedom
"I support open source models. There is a coming tidal wave of cybersecurity problems that are going to come from these open source models"
"There are people in the industry who say we should ban open source, because otherwise a bunch of systems are going to be hacked"
"We're going to, as a society, I think, have to just accept some fairly severe cyber incidents from open models, in exchange for the liberty that comes with that"
Optimistic people tend to be long innovation, and typically, the optimists usually win. Right now, those same optimists look at bitcoin, a technology that has remained relatively unchanged since its launch in January 2009, and it boggles their minds how something so old, so rigid, so static, can continue to stay relevant and undisrupted during this era of rapid technological change. It’s so difficult for them to accept the possibility that Satoshi may have gotten all the rigid fundamental pillars in bitcoin right in 2009, whilst leaving enough flexibility in the protocol for us to adapt to new paradigms if needed. Many of these tech optimists have skin in the game. They’ve positioned themselves by investing in startups and shitcoins they believe will eventually obsolete bitcoin. That’s ultimately the common theme connecting this latest “AI will break cryptography” FUD, quantum computing FUD, and the older “flippening” narratives. I’ve been called a “luddite” for over a decade for not buying into Peercoin, Ethereum, Tezos, EOS, or running a Dash masternode. I’m used to it. Now I’m leaning into it. I’m a bitcoin luddite. My long position in bitcoin is an indirect short on your AI startups and quantum startups ability to break bitcoin. It’s a bet that P will continue not to equal NP. I dare you to steal the coins out of my address. If you think you can, then do it. Fight me bitch.
