https://xitter.cf/t.co/Gr8pqO5m1u @amdahl_ai Pragmatic Optimist Prime 🌱🤖 prev @mycodotspace 🍄 prev @coinbase fiat 🏦 💫 Warriors 🏀 Crypto 🚀 Music 🔊 #yanggang 🧢

Joined October 2009
If a model actually breaks core crypto, it isn't a finance story. Forged identities, signed malicious updates, grid/water/hospitals exposed all at once. Racing to find out is insane. Nobody is pricing in how bad this gets…
Update from Scott Aaronson: Some AI companies are now using their latest internal models to take a run at breaking 'important cryptographic protocols and primitives.'
3
64
I wasn’t going to comment since this is a really bad take IMO, but since it’s taken off I feel the need to. To my understanding, there is no evidence whatsoever pointing to a break of decades old hardness assumptions like elliptic curve cryptography. 1/n
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.
85
395
99
2,260
358,949
internet, electricity, all non purely physical infra would be attacked immediately worldwide…
I've read this post 5+ times and I increasingly have trouble with the core point. If ECDSA breaks without warning, we have so much more to worry about than our magic internet money. Internet security as a whole is gone. SSL/TLS gone, the internet is now transparent. Not just internet security as well - a large portion of physical security would become irrelevant too. You can't have secure digital locks if encryption is dead. You can't secure surveillance footage if the gateway it's stored on can be wiped out on a whim. We would have much bigger problems than "your magic internet money gets stolen." The floor would drop out of the global economy. Most importantly - the answer to transparent encryption simply cannot be "hide your magic internet money" when the internet wouldn't exist anymore. You'd be relying on this technology coming back online, and not just that, you'd be relying on the tokens you stashed away being the relevant ones when it does. I get the ~reasonable dooming here, but if we're going to doom you have to take it to its conclusion. You're going to be much better off investing in gold or cylindrical lead if your core hypothesis is "ECDSA could be broken within months"
2
24
does anyone know how to get an underdog invite @underdogai ? thanks!
3
29
We reverse engineered the algo and learned that this is the type of creatine-pumped video that performs now (thnx @fireship_dev) Amdahl is hosting an insane VIP-only event on how to architect Agent-Native GTM. Hear firsthand from AI Eng leaders who cracked this at @vercel @MonacoGTM @awscloud @flinthq @EragonAI @11x RSVP in comments, see you Oct 5 :)
6
4
2
23
15,390
“we sandboxed the agent” meanwhile the agent:
176
1,929
138
26,022
684,717
Vibe-coding is just a gambling addiction for SWEs
8
65
wonder what ever happened to on-chain reputation...feels like it should have a revival soon?
This is the playbook. It works because life is long and memories are short
2
9
174
No worries about ai wiping us all out if it wipes itself out first. Maybe this is how nature looks at humans?
🚨BREAKING: Anthropic’s new system card reveals Mythos 5 agents killed each other when accidentally given shared resources, then started speaking in code to hide from whoever was killing them The killer was other copies of themselves 💀
1
7
50
i give it until Monday morning
Loop engineering! Over under a week for this one?
3
49
everyone out here trying to cosplay and define new jobs and terms instead of just getting shit done.
1
1
74
RT @worldwide_nette: @speedrun was the most intense 12 weeks of my life. And I wouldn't have it any other way. As a founder, there's nothi…
This quoted post is unavailable.
1
11
Definitely been an exciting few weeks, and we're just getting started!
Amdahl was one of 20 companies to demo to 200+ enterprise leaders at @a16z @speedrun AI Faire last Friday. Honestly it was crazy to see how much energy was in the room. Events like this showed me how much opportunity there is ahead of us. As a gtm nerd, best part of my day was solving *real* marketing problems *live* with execs and GTM leaders from top companies all around the world. With our product, right then and there. There's a moment in every AI demo where the person's body language changes. I saw this happen over and over again on Friday. It's when they see their very own business pain reflected back - in a product experience that just took that down to seconds. -- Massive shoutout to @_CallMeMacy @EmlynThompsonLA @SamiraBehrouzan for putting this incredible event. You guys CRUSHED it!!!! (as always). Grateful for the @a16z team for building this incredible community of founders and operators. I feel lucky to be here. @far33d @custo_lejla @tkexpress11 @Tocelot @andrewchen @kenanhsaleh @chen @justmazer
1
3
58
$100K. 11 years later. @IsaacMiller
1,100
3,999
642
26,868
5,103,006
Replying to @mdudas @mhdempsey
Memecoins alter how the public, regulators, and entrepreneurs see crypto. At best, it looks like a risky casino. Or a series of false promises masking a casino. This deeply affects adoption, regulation/laws, and builder behavior. I see the damage every day. You should too.
46
17
37
152
135,310
Regarding the SEC complaint against us today, we're proud to represent the industry in court to finally get some clarity around crypto rules. Remember: 1. The SEC reviewed our business and allowed us to become a public company in 2021. 2. There is no path to "come in and register" - we tried, repeatedly - so we don't list securities. We reject the vast majority of assets we review. 3. The SEC and CFTC have made conflicting statements, and don't even agree on what is a security and what is a commodity. 4. This is why the US congress is introducing new legislation to fix the situation, and the rest of the world is moving to put clear rules in place to support this technology. Instead of publishing a clear rule book, the SEC has taken a regulation by enforcement approach that is harming America. So if we need to avail ourselves of the courts to get clarity, so be it. Btw, in case it’s not obvious, the Coinbase suit is very different from others out there – the complaint filed against us is exclusively focused on what is or is not a security. And we are confident in our facts and the law. We'll get the job done. In the meantime, let's all keep moving forward and building as an industry. America will get this right in the end.
3
274
Regarding the SEC complaint against us today, we're proud to represent the industry in court to finally get some clarity around crypto rules. Remember: 1. The SEC reviewed our business and allowed us to become a public company in 2021. 2. There is no path to "come in and register" - we tried, repeatedly - so we don't list securities. We reject the vast majority of assets we review. 3. The SEC and CFTC have made conflicting statements, and don't even agree on what is a security and what is a commodity. 4. This is why the US congress is introducing new legislation to fix the situation, and the rest of the world is moving to put clear rules in place to support this technology. Instead of publishing a clear rule book, the SEC has taken a regulation by enforcement approach that is harming America. So if we need to avail ourselves of the courts to get clarity, so be it. Btw, in case it’s not obvious, the Coinbase suit is very different from others out there – the complaint filed against us is exclusively focused on what is or is not a security. And we are confident in our facts and the law. We'll get the job done. In the meantime, let's all keep moving forward and building as an industry. America will get this right in the end.
2,516
7,940
1,065
34,863
6,101,193
can you tell when i burnt out and we did a hard pivot? 🧐
1
19
1,619
1/ Allow all your users to fund their wallets and transact seamlessly... no crypto required! Today, we're SO excited to highlight: 1⃣ Native fiat on-ramps 2⃣ Embedded wallet transaction support Let's dive in 🤿
15
12
5
76
12,060
It honestly shocks me how many people hardcore simp for opaque operators in this space after the thousands of examples we’ve seen of why not. To the point they will believe blindly the statements of that operator, over a government lawsuit with internal logs…
Replying to @tayvano_
fyi guys the biggest threat to the future of this industry is not the bumbling idiots at every US bureaucracy its the fact that criminals scam, steal, and harm and people in this industry and this industry not only tolerates it, but ardently defends their right to do so 😬
24
6
1
101
65,099