🚨 $ETH RESEARCHER JUST WARNED THAT AI COULD HACK BITCOIN AND ETHEREUM WALLETS SOON This is not the first time a warning like this has spread fear across crypto. In March, Google Quantum AI published a paper estimating that breaking the cryptography behind Bitcoin and Ethereum would need fewer than 500,000 physical qubits, about 20x fewer than earlier estimates. Google's Willow chip has 105 qubits today, and the paper says no quantum computer can run the attack yet. Justin Drake of the Ethereum Foundation co authored the paper. He puts at least 10% odds on a quantum computer recovering a private key by 2032. That warning was about quantum computers. The new warning, from yesterday, is about AI. On Oct 6, OpenAI published 722 math papers from a model it has not released. On Oct 7, Drake posted that AI math could break ECDSA, the signature method behind Bitcoin and Ethereum, in the worst case within months. HERE'S WHAT HE'S WARNING: Every wallet has a private key and a public key. The private key lets you spend. An address is a hash of the public key. The public key stays hidden until you spend from the address, and after that it is visible on the blockchain permanently. If someone could calculate the private key from a public key, they could move the coins. Nobody knows a way to do that in practical time today. Hashes cannot replace public key encryption, which secures websites, messaging apps and VPNs, so the issue goes beyond crypto. Vitalik also warns that lattice based cryptography, the main option for quantum safe encryption, could lose security from AI math as well. So far, no one has shown that AI can break ECDSA, and no quantum computer can run the attack today. What exists today is a known weak spot. About 6.9M BTC has a visible public key, and holders can reduce that exposure by moving coins to fresh address #Macro Insights# #Altcoin Season# #ETHBlockchain