Why AI won't break ECDSA and steal your Bitcoin anytime soon
markjeffrey · x · 2026-10-09
Responding to fears that AI could break ECDSA and wipe out Bitcoin holdings in the coming months, P3b7 argues:
- If asymmetric cryptography falls, Bitcoin is the least of our problems: TLS, banking, secure communications, and critical infrastructure would all collapse first — worrying about your coins then is like worrying about your Wi-Fi password while the house is on fire.
- No sign of a breakthrough: recent mathematical results, like the integer multiplication result claiming to beat the n·log n barrier with an exponent improvement of 2^-182, are interesting math but don't change our understanding of how to break ECDSA.
markjeffrey amplified the thread as low-cost, level-headed advice.
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