🚨 CAN AI CRACK CRYPTO’S SECURITY?
A scary headline. But let’s slow down and look at what is actually being claimed.
According to Phemex News, some experts consider the risk of AI breaking elliptic curve cryptography relatively low, despite rumors about potential breakthroughs.
This cryptography underpins the digital signatures used to authorize transactions across major blockchains.
The concern? AI could discover a mathematical shortcut that makes recovering a private key from a public key practical.
That would be serious. But the report provides no verifiable evidence that OpenAI has achieved such a breakthrough.
My take: this deserves attention, but a rumor alone cannot tell us how vulnerable our wallets are.
Three things would matter:
• Does the method actually work?
• How much time and computing power does it require?
• Which wallets and signature systems would be exposed?
Even a genuine breakthrough would not automatically drain every wallet at once. The impact would depend on those details—and how quickly the industry could respond.
For investors, “low probability” does not mean “zero risk.” It also does not justify treating an unverified claim as an imminent disaster.
Watch for published research, independent verification and concrete security guidance.
Would an independently verified breakthrough change your confidence in crypto—or your expectations for how quickly
blockchains should upgrade their security?
A scary headline. But let’s slow down and look at what is actually being claimed.
According to Phemex News, some experts consider the risk of AI breaking elliptic curve cryptography relatively low, despite rumors about potential breakthroughs.
This cryptography underpins the digital signatures used to authorize transactions across major blockchains.
The concern? AI could discover a mathematical shortcut that makes recovering a private key from a public key practical.
That would be serious. But the report provides no verifiable evidence that OpenAI has achieved such a breakthrough.
My take: this deserves attention, but a rumor alone cannot tell us how vulnerable our wallets are.
Three things would matter:
• Does the method actually work?
• How much time and computing power does it require?
• Which wallets and signature systems would be exposed?
Even a genuine breakthrough would not automatically drain every wallet at once. The impact would depend on those details—and how quickly the industry could respond.
For investors, “low probability” does not mean “zero risk.” It also does not justify treating an unverified claim as an imminent disaster.
Watch for published research, independent verification and concrete security guidance.
Would an independently verified breakthrough change your confidence in crypto—or your expectations for how quickly
blockchains should upgrade their security?