Vitalik Buterin urges calm as AI raises new fears over Bitcoin and Ethereum cryptography security

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin warned that AI-driven advances in mathematics could weaken both existing crypto signatures and some post-quantum defenses.On Oct. 7, Buterin advised crypto holders to reduce exposure where practical but cautioned against rushing funds into new wallets, arguing that migration mistakes pose a more immediate danger than any demonstrated cryptographic break.He wrote on X:“I don't recommend anyone scramble to move their funds to new wallets today. But we should take the risks to cryptography from AI-accelerated math seriously.”OpenAI's math advances trigger warningsHis comments followed Ethereum researcher Justin Drake’s call for the industry to begin preparing for “bunker mode,” including moving assets toward fresh addresses whose public keys have never been exposed onchain.Drake raised the possibility that advances in artificial intelligence could accelerate mathematical attacks on the elliptic-curve cryptography used by Bitcoin and Ethereum.The debate intensified after OpenAI published new mathematical results generated by an internal frontier model on Oct. 6, including machine-generated proofs formalized in Lean. OpenAI did not report any attack o...