The Crypto Security Timeline May Be Shorter Than Expected $ETH researcher Justin Drake is no longer looking only at quantum computers as the long-term threat to wallet security. His new concern is that AI could discover a practical way to attack ECDSA first - potentially much sooner than the industry has assumed. The risk depends on one simple difference: Address has never sent funds → public key remains hidden behind a hash Address has already sent funds → public key is permanently visible on-chain If a future system could derive a private key from that exposed public key, previously used wallets would become the more vulnerable group. Bitcoin and Ethereum both rely on ECDSA. Drake calls the preparation “Bunker Mode”: gradually move self-custodied assets to fresh addresses that have never broadcast a transaction and strengthen cold-storage practices. His timeline is deliberately a worst-case scenario, months rather than years - not evidence that ECDSA has already been broken. The shift is in what the industry may need to prepare for: not only quantum hardware, but AI-driven advances in mathematics. #Altcoin Season# #ETH #Ethereum