AI Threat to Bitcoin Is Blown Out of Proportion, Jameson Lopp Believes
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The theoretical threats of artificial intelligence hacking blockchain encryption are greatly exaggerated, and the crypto industry is needlessly giving in to panic. This is the conclusion reached by prominent Bitcoin developer and Casa co-founder Jameson Lopp, who urged the community to take a sober look at the actual AI threat landscape. The large-scale discussion was sparked by a statement from Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake, supported by Haseeb Qureshi of Dragonfly, that new models from Anthropic and OpenAI could crack the basic ECDSA signature algorithm "in months, not years." Citing the Claude Mythos Preview neural network, which uncovered a vulnerability…
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