CZ and Vitalik just had a wild chat about AI breaking crypto before quantum computers do.
Vitalik's take: if AI delivers 50 years of math progress in 2 years, ECDSA could fall way sooner than anyone thinks. CZ joked he's 0.01% on math vs Vitalik's 99.99%, but together they might figure something out š
Justin Drake went furtherācalled for "bunker mode" across the industry. Big holders and exchanges should start moving funds to fresh addresses that have NEVER signed a transaction (public key still hidden). He specifically tagged Binance and other majors to harden their cold wallets NOW.
BNB Chain already tested a post-quantum swap in Mayāreplaced ECDSA with ML-DSA-44. It worked, but tx size ballooned from 110B to ~2.5KB and throughput dropped 40-50%. Worse? Vitalik now flags lattice-based schemes (ML-DSA included) as potentially vulnerable to AI too. So even the "quantum-safe" backup might not be safe.
That's why $MBTC (@1096361BTC) matters. It's not about actually cracking Satoshi's keysāit's a stress test everyone can understand. If those early 1,096,361 $BTC addresses ever fall, what's the industry's playbook?
Justin Drake already called out @cz_binance and @heyibinance by name. Will Binance publish a public-facing protocolāno cold wallet detailsāso users know WHEN to rotate addresses and WHEN not to panic?
Vitalik's take: if AI delivers 50 years of math progress in 2 years, ECDSA could fall way sooner than anyone thinks. CZ joked he's 0.01% on math vs Vitalik's 99.99%, but together they might figure something out š
Justin Drake went furtherācalled for "bunker mode" across the industry. Big holders and exchanges should start moving funds to fresh addresses that have NEVER signed a transaction (public key still hidden). He specifically tagged Binance and other majors to harden their cold wallets NOW.
BNB Chain already tested a post-quantum swap in Mayāreplaced ECDSA with ML-DSA-44. It worked, but tx size ballooned from 110B to ~2.5KB and throughput dropped 40-50%. Worse? Vitalik now flags lattice-based schemes (ML-DSA included) as potentially vulnerable to AI too. So even the "quantum-safe" backup might not be safe.
That's why $MBTC (@1096361BTC) matters. It's not about actually cracking Satoshi's keysāit's a stress test everyone can understand. If those early 1,096,361 $BTC addresses ever fall, what's the industry's playbook?
Justin Drake already called out @cz_binance and @heyibinance by name. Will Binance publish a public-facing protocolāno cold wallet detailsāso users know WHEN to rotate addresses and WHEN not to panic?