The a-priori call for "bunker mode" came from researcher Justin Drake, who urged a mass migration of assets to hashed addresses to prevent private key recovery via GPU clusters. Drake cited a release of 722 mathematical results from OpenAI as evidence that breakthroughs in mathematics are accelerating. While Drake and Buterin cautioned against panicking, Ledger's CTO noted that a disorderly mass migration of assets is more likely to cause loss through user error than the AI threats it aims to prevent.
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Vitalik Buterin Warns AI May Break Cryptography Within 2 Years
Crypto13 days ago
The Ethereum Foundation is accelerating its shift toward hash-based signatures to protect the network from advancements in mathematical superintelligence. Co-founder Vitalik Buterin states that AI could weaken lattice-based cryptography, including ML-DSA and FHE, within 2 years, potentially exposing ECDSA security to risks sooner than expected. To mitigate this, Buterin supports a "bunker mode" approach, advising users to favor addresses that have never sent transactions and to use off-chain multisig signing where possible.
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