# OpenAI math breakthroughs prompt Bitcoin researcher’s ‘bunker mode’ warning

https://mins.news/en/item/90551

- CryptoSlate, 2026-10-07 22:24 UTC
- Tech
- Original: https://cryptoslate.com/openais-math-breakthrough-raises-fears-ai-could-break-bitcoin-and-ethereum-security-within-months/

> After OpenAI released new mathematical results, Ethereum researcher Justin Drake warned that AI could accelerate the timeline for breaking elliptic-curve cryptography. He advised large holders to move assets to addresses whose public keys have never been exposed, while stressing that an ECDSA break within months is a worst-case conjecture, not a demonstrated capability.

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