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Head of Customer Happiness @bitrefill | Helping everyone live on crypto | Love wine, Warriors, Niners, and Giants | De gustibus non est disputandum
Joined November 2012
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So good, it sounds like a scam...Bitrefill.
Shoutout to @jasontheween for the mention on @TheICHpodcast! 🙌
For anyone wondering, @bitrefill has been around since 2014, helping people spend crypto on everyday things like gift cards, phone top-ups, eSims and more across 170+ countries.
11 years of making it easy to live on crypto.
Would love to come the show and break it all down 👀.
DMs are open! ⚡
Stop using Google to find protocols and crypto services
Thomas retweeted
Fluidkey automatically gives you a new address for every payment.
Next to protecting your privacy, this gives you @drakefjustin’s “bunker mode” by default.
Incoming payments sit on addresses that have never signed a transaction, so there’s nothing for a quantum computer to attack 🔒
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.
Thomas retweeted
We wrote this article about how Wallets, CEX and DEX can allow their users to off ramp in the easiest way possible without KYC with @bitrefill
So I had to make a video with Opus 5.5 😬😬😬
Oh and if you think this is cool for your users hit me up 😊
Give your AI or SI a Chief Spending Officer.
bitrefill.com/assistant
Hello CSO.
The wallet that just works!
Replying to @ambire
We’ll be onboarding new users daily, so turn on notifications and hang around our Discord and Telegram chats blog.ambire.com/ambire-mobil…
Felt inspired by @live_0n_crypt0 so here's a quick explainer on how @bitrefill works and how we help you live on crypto.
Thomas retweeted
Opus 5.5 one shotted this only having the BR website as a reference
This is really cool!
Financial access for all is spending USDT, USDC, or other stables on things you need like data, groceries, a ride, or anything else.
If the last step still needs a bank to give you permission, you still don't have access.
Thomas retweeted
Day 1 of sharing daily new bitcoin knowledge
Did you know there's an app where you can use your bitcoin to buy gift cards of certain apps or games so you dont need a credit o debit card to buy one??
The app name is Bitrefill and you can find it on the app store💸
-free
-easy
Thomas retweeted
Everyone should have a @safe wallet - in this video, I explain why.
Security-wise, it beats simply using an EOA. It also works across DeFi apps like @DeFiSaver and @ambire (both covered in the video).
Stay secure and set yourself up with a multisig.
Thomas retweeted
The reason on/off ramps are going to 0bps is because it’s going to increasingly be used as an acquisition strategy the same way Neobanks don’t charge for ACH and Wires.
Those who charge bps today will be in for a rude awakening in the coming 12-18 months if they don’t diversify their revenue streams.
Main benefactors of this are OTC desks as they are the key infra partners for this and their margins won’t change.
Thomas retweeted
WalletChan has been eliminating Blind Signing
with Day 1 Clear Signing support. Give it a try!
Wallet users regularly approve transactions they cannot actually read.
Blind signing has contributed to billions in losses including the Bybit hack. When a user cannot meaningfully understand what they are confirming, the approval meant to protect them stops working.
Clear Signing (ERC-7730) is an open standard that gives wallets human-readable descriptions of what every transaction does before the user signs.
How it works:
> Apps provide clear descriptions of what their transactions do
> Independent reviewers verify those descriptions are accurate
> Wallets display them consistently so users know what they are approving
> Built with contributions from @Ledger, @MetaMask, @Trezor, @FireblocksHQ, and @WalletConnect
Clear Signing makes "what you see is what you sign" the default across @ethereum wallets.
Stablecoins and crypto in a wallet is real internet money. Access is turning it into data, food, or a ride to the airport without asking for permission.
A dollar that can only sit in a dashboard until someone gives you approval to spend is not money.
guys, the APY is too high. it's breaking the UI
>100% APY on @LiquityProtocol's yBOLD
>70% APY on @CurveFinance's yvcrvUSD-2
>35% APY on @yearnfi's yvUSD
pls give the UI devs a break
Thomas retweeted
repeat after me:
multisigs are for users and not just treasuries. it feels like a good time to diversify the security setup.
let's make multisigs easier to use!






























