I went to the token 2049 closing party and nobody knew me
Also, founders inadvertently venturing within my unsolicited advice radius:
If anyone wants to pay me to repeat good, but extremely common advice, known for at least the better part of a decade, as a “Bitcoin security researcher”
I’m definitely down
DM’s open
Today I call upon the blockchain industry to calmly begin planning for "bunker mode". My personal recommendation is to set in motion a controlled mass migration of assets to fresh addresses, i.e. addresses whose pubkeys remain hidden behind a hash.
Holders, starting with large and sophisticated ones, should consider moving the bulk of their funds to addresses that have never signed a transaction. And when they do sign one, they should also move remaining funds to a new address (possibly generated from the same seed phrase).
Don't rush. While I believe there is cause for action a rushed migration would do more harm than good. Don't panic either. Moving assets to protected addresses is a simple, preventative step which does not require new cryptography or new wallets.
IMO it is now reasonable to brace for the possibility that ECDSA breaks before qday, in the worst case in months not years. By "break" I mean fast private key recovery (e.g. in one week) on available hardware (e.g. a large GPU cluster).
Recent days have been humbling for human mathematical intuition. Long-held, unquestioned hypotheses have fallen. This includes the n log(n) bound for integer multiplication and the 3SUM conjecture. In hindsight, May's unexpected disproof of the Erdős unit distance conjecture was our warning shot.
Yesterday's OpenAI drop made it clear that mathematical superintelligence is upon us. They say there are weeks where decades happen. We are about to live through weeks where centuries of mathematical progress happen. Could our magic 64-byte ECDSA signatures be too good to be true? Was it just security through obscurity all this time?
Elliptic curves feel especially vulnerable to superintelligence. Curves carry rich structure, with room for fancy tricks like Schoof, Frobenius, pairings. (By contrast, hashes are designed to minimise algebraic structure.)
Separately, as Ewin Tang can attest, an efficient quantum algorithm sometimes foreshadows an efficient classical one. We should be open to the possibility of a classical counterpart to Shor that breaks elliptic curves and RSA at once.
Also noteworthy is the striking under-representation of cryptographic breakthroughs among the 722 mathematical results OpenAI published. I've witnessed first-hand the US government censoring academic quantum cryptanalysis results. Backroom interventionism is my base case.
I urge large, sophisticated actors to lead by example. Project11's "risq list" (bitcoin-risq-list.projecteleven[.]com) is a great tracker of exposed BTC pubkeys. Binance, Bitbank, Robinhood, Bitfinex, and Tether have an opportunity to harden their cold storage. Next month I'll address institutions in London in a live Q&A (forum.ethereuminstitutional[.]org/london-2026).
Again, please do not rush. Wallets holding under 50 BTC enjoy partial cover from "Satoshi's shield", i.e. his 20K exposed addresses that hold 50 BTC each. Load-bearing signers like oracles and L2 security councils should consider rotating ECDSA pubkeys with every signed message and/or multi-signing with a hash-based schemes like SPHINCS.
Exiting bunker mode safely will require post-AI cryptography. My inclination is to go all-in on hash-based cryptography and avoid structured mathematical assumptions entirely, whether from curves, lattices, or isogenies. A single battle-tested hash (e.g. from the SHA or BLAKE families) yields plausible post-AI security.
The Ethereum roadmap on strawmap[.]org fully embraces hash-based cryptography with end-to-end formal verification as a response to the quantum threat. Those timelines must now be revisited and accelerated in light of mathematical superintelligence. I'll be pushing for maximum defensive acceleration.
OH at Singapore OKX event:
A: we do tokenization
B: like what?
A: bonds, real estate, horses
B: really? How many horses have you tokenized?
A: literally all the horses
B: …
So far hearing some S-Tier conspiracy theories in Singapore
Still has some room to catch up to the peyote crowd I met in Puerto Rico at restart week back in 2019(?) ig tho
Aw shucks, I just came up with the name “shroomberg” mostly
RPC is upgraded and the site is back live
Wdyt @shroom_network fam?👇
Here's a dashboard me and @RegularMarek built for the $shroom community shroombergterminal.com/
Check it out
wdyt?
Seems like @pinatacloud not affected by the ipfs drama (so far)
Load bearing website
One of the few web3 games I actually have fun playing.
Thanks to cheap and fast block space on @megaeth the game is played onchain which is pretty cool.
Give it a try if you want to take a quick break this weekend
Ethereum “researchers” discovering that PoW miners having to sell coins to pay energy costs is a feature and not a bug in the year 2026 is probably one of the funniest things ever
Literal world ending technology cheaper than Netflix
Anthropic:
“OMG Fable is too dangerous, the average person can’t be trusted with such power. ”
-Every other prompt rejected for “safety”
-All your data sent to Anthropic for “safety”
-Model paused for government review for “safety”
Literally 2 months later:
“Here’s open weight models as powerful as Fable with zero restrictions”
The world hasn’t ended, everything is fine. Turns out it was all absolutely pointless doomerisim.
I think OP might have got me to play Skyrim again.
See you in a few months codex
RIP productivity 💀💀💀
Replying to @AmandaAskell
Google “only kill dragons pacifist challenge”
Arguably dragons don’t count because they’re immortal spirits or something and it’s also your fate or whatever
Still forming an opinion on the whole watermarking thing but ubiquitous copy-pasta of AI generated output is -ve EV for everyone
RegularMarek retweeted
Replying to @Adelgary @Jestopher_BTC
I was about to ask AI but it’s one of the big two and I don’t want to get banned
Update.
After talking to a grand total of 2 (two) people I am now building another demo











