AI is breaking math fast, but Bitcoin's hashing and encryption math remains out of reach
markjeffrey · x · 2026-10-28
Quoting Elon Musk's April 2023 claim that AI can't defy fundamental math or crack Bitcoin's hashing algorithms, markjeffrey argues that the recent wave of AI math papers offers zero evidence that view has changed. AI is breaking some math very fast, but the key math underpinning crypto and all encryption—logins, banking, credit cards—remains safe.
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