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Cryptographers clash over whether AI could soon break Bitcoin
Original: Cryptographers Urgently Debating Whether AI Could Break Bitcoin’s Security ‘in Months’ Coinbase's cryptography head call
A claim that artificial intelligence could undermine Bitcoin's cryptography within months has sparked urgent debate among cryptographers. Coinbase's head of cryptography dismissed the idea as "the very definition of FUD," arguing that current AI capabilities fall far short of breaking the encryption that secures the network. The exchange highlights wider anxiety about whether rapid AI progress could threaten the cryptographic foundations of cryptocurrencies.
Why now: Fresh warnings about AI advancing fast enough to threaten Bitcoin's cryptographic security have prompted prominent pushback from Coinbase's cryptography lead.
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