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Joined April 2025
Shift Foundation retweeted
Everybody’s talking about bunker mode. We already built one. And we’re giving away 3 Shift Cards. No private keys sitting on a blockchain waiting to be cracked. Try it and experience the magic. Retweet + comment “BUNKER” to enter. The bunker opens at 100 comments.
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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.
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@friskkSep 3
Day 134 of ripping Pokemon cards until I pull a Gengar still no Gengar (shoutout to @shiftfdn for providing todays pack!!!!)
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@friskkSep 2
Day 133 of ripping Pokemon cards until I pull a Gengar still no Gengar
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@iamgaurangdesaiAug 14
ok so - new package got shipped this is the shift card - as they say, money that's ledgerless and completely private so basically - you store your crypto in the wallet and use the card to approve transactions and a bunch of other things one thing i noticed - they've collaborated with kamino, so you can earn yield on stablecoins. average i'm seeing is 4-5% apy/m so here's how i'd use it take profits from my rh trenching, deposit them here so they generate yield and stay safe hehe
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what even is quantum money?
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Got my @shiftfdn card👀👀 "Final form of money" Can't wait to try it out properly!
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The power of quantum privacy at the palm of my hand @shiftfdn
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Our beta will close to the public very soon. The first 100 people that sign up with code: REWARD and place a trade will receive a special gift. One Hunch could change your life.
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Hey I'm Noah, I'm building Shift - a primitive form of quantum money. Shift started with an idea I couldn't let go of. I stumbled across something called quantum money late one night and spent the next few hours reading everything I could find about it. The core idea is almost absurdly simple: what if you could make double-spending in the context of digital money physically impossible, not by building a better system, but by using the laws of nature to enforce it? If money exists as a quantum object in a random state, the no-cloning theorem means copying it is not just difficult but impossible by the laws of Physics. You hand it to someone, they receive it, and both of you know with certainty that no copy exists. No central authority, no consensus mechanism, no trust assumptions. Just physics. The problem is that actually building this is nowhere near possible today. Quantum objects are fragile. Keeping one stable long enough to be useful is hard. Transporting it across any meaningful distance is harder. The physics is sound but the engineering is decades away, maybe more. So I started thinking about what you do when you can't build the real thing. If the properties of quantum money are what make it valuable, could you get those same properties from something else? Something you could actually build today? That question is where Shift came from. If we can't build quantum money today, how about we simulate it somehow? Now I believe I've an answer.
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another wallet drained. another "guys help" post. this one: $MEGA converted through multiple liquidity pools → bridged to Ethereum mainnet → gone. single transaction. the attack didn't need a sophisticated exploit. it just needed a key that was reachable. that's the real vulnerability. not the protocol. not the bridge. a key that lives outside hardware is a key waiting to be stolen. implied safety of software wallets: as long as nobody tries hard enough.
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i am so tired of this. we're out here shipping AI agents, handing them live wallets, letting them loose on mainnet and nobody is stopping to ask the one question that actually matters. what stops it from draining everything? a prompt? a system instruction? "please don't steal" in the context window? come on. that's not a trust layer. that's cope. one bad instruction and it's gone. one compromised model and it's gone. one prompt injection and it's just gone. i don't know how we're all just okay with this. we are building the most dangerous payment infrastructure in history and calling it innovation. agents need hardware guardrails. real ones. burnt into silicon. not written in a markdown file somewhere.
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Bitcoin solved double-spend with consensus. For 17 years, we forgot to ask if consensus was the only way.
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mpp's been stuck in my head all week machines paying machines, no humans, no chains eating fees. tiny ai agents settle peer-to-peer: hardware attests clean firmware, lamport one-time keys burn after tx. drone pays sensor for data, done in total bilateral darkness. as someone who's felt chain exposure gut-punch real flows, this feels raw. physics trumps validators every time.
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Crypto cards improved access, not economics. Market is filled with 100s of crypto cards and 100 more coming soon. Almost everyone is launching card. Issue is crypto cards are broken. 1. Merchant Fees Stay High: Even when paying with stablecoins, transactions still flow across Visa/Mastercard’s fee stack, typically 1.5–3.5%. None of the cost advantages of stablecoins reach merchants. 2. Middlemen Still Dominate: Issuers, processors, networks, and other participants all take their cut and introduce delays. Stablecoins enter the system, but the system itself doesn’t change. 3. Operational Complexity for Card Issuers: Crypto card operators must handle stablecoin custody, instant conversion, liquidity, and regulatory overhead. All in all, a structurally heavy business.
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Blockchain Without Validators: What Does @shiftfdn Change? Think about it; We've been saying “digital cash” for 16 years, but we're still waiting for thousands of computers to approve sending money. Shift is making that a thing of the past. Just you and the recipient. No one in between. The moment you sign, the money is in the other party's hands. Zero fees, full privacy, instant speed. ❓How? A small device you plug into your phone (like Ledger's smart sibling) makes the key single-use when you sign. Double-spending is physically impossible. This isn't just a payment system. It's a new architecture that solves the fundamental problem blockchain hasn't solved since 2009. Shift is still in its very early stages. But everyone who reads the whitepaper says the same thing: “If this happens, everything else becomes obsolete.” #Shift #Bitcoin #Blockchain
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Have been saying this, will say this again. It's time for a shift in money and financial system
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blockchains just got an upgrade on left is current blockchains (bitcoin, ethereum, L1s, L2s, etc) on right is shift @shiftfdn one requires 1000s of validators to validate your transactions, other works without any validators one requires to pay those validators hence gas fees, other one doesn't hence zero fees one requires validators to validate transaction through a consensus mechanism hence takes a bit time, other works without validators so no processing time >shift is coming
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2016: "state sharding is the endgame" 2021: ZK rolled in and replaced it. 2025: "ZK is the endgame" every time we declare something final, we're just marking where we stopped looking. technology doesn't end. it chapters. the next big shift isn't coming from what everyone's focused on. it's coming from what we've forgotten to watch.
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been locked in the terminal for hours, fingers covered in {brackets}, and the screen finally says “v1 is shifting” if you see a privacy app launch and a tired intern in the same room, you know shift isn’t just a meme anymore get ready, p2p is about to feel different
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