Cryptographers Clash Over Whether AI Could Break Bitcoin's ECDSA 'in Months'

Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake urged the blockchain industry to prepare for 'bunker mode,' warning that AI-driven math breakthroughs could crack Bitcoin's ECDSA signatures before quantum computers do — possibly within months. Coinbase cryptography head Yehuda Lindell called it fear mongering, saying there is no evidence of a break in elliptic curve hardness assumptions.

• Drake said fast ECDSA private key recovery could take a week on a large GPU cluster
• He advised large holders to move funds to addresses that have never signed
• Coinbase's Lindell: no evidence of a break in elliptic curve cryptography
• Blockstream's Adam Back dismissed the warning as 'fud-burger'