Traders dump crypto fearing AI will crack code and cryptographic primitives
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-08
Crypto holder @DefiApes says he sold all his crypto, fearing AI will decompile and solve code as we know it, undermining digital money — "feels like Russian roulette, happy to be wrong and buy back later." AI commentator teortaxesTex suspects cold wallets would prove hardier than banks if superintelligence starts cracking all software and cryptographic primitives, quipping that his dad was right to hoard gold.
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