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Ethereum Foundation Researcher Suggests 'Bunker Mode' for Crypto Addresses Over AI Risk
A proposal highlights theoretical long-term risks to elliptic-curve signatures, suggesting users keep funds in unexposed addresses.
Justin Drake, a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, suggested on social platform X that artificial intelligence advances could eventually undermine the elliptic-curve digital signature schemes used across Bitcoin and Ethereum. He proposed that the industry prepare a defensive "bunker mode" by migrating holdings to addresses that have never broadcast or signed a transaction, thereby keeping their public keys hidden.
Drake stated that a vulnerability could be defined as the ability to recover a private key within roughly one week using accessible hardware, such as graphics processing clusters. Pointing to recent mathematical papers released by OpenAI, he argued that elliptic curves possess rich mathematical structures that advanced AI could potentially exploit, while advocating for Ethereum to accelerate its transition toward hash-based cryptography.
The piece notes that coins are not facing an immediate threat, as no active attack against the signature algorithm has been demonstrated, and other cryptographers quickly pushed back against Drake's timeline. Drake also called on major custodians—including Binance, Bitbank, Robinhood, Bitfinex, and Tether—to review their cold storage architectures.
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