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Your browser quietly fixed a huge security hole last week.
But your computer has OTHER software that talks to the internet and most of it is still wide open.
2 commands to check yours. Takes 60 seconds. 🧵
Got Docker containers or servers?
They freeze their certificate list when built so updating your laptop does NOTHING for them. Rebuild your images.
Why this matters forever now: AI found these bugs before criminals did. AI also lets criminals attack new holes within HOURS. Prompt patching is the new normal.
Got bitcoin:native ?
SCOOP: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, including some attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources told Axios.
The findings have alarmed banking executives, who are racing to restrict access to their systems as AI moves at a velocity faster than financial institutions can respond, multiple industry and bank executives told Axios.
Several banks are now preparing for worst-case and even “day after” scenarios, including how to rapidly secure or restore customer accounts if things go wrong, the people said.
Several bank executives told Axios they're struggling to distinguish between human users and AI agents. One executive said banks also struggle to determine whether agents are authorized by customers or potentially operating without their permission, more akin to rogue agent behavior.
Read my latest for Axios here: axios.com/2026/10/22/ai-agen…
The sad truth is there are a lot of people borrowing Bitcoin’s reputation that aren’t here to learn, build, or move Bitcoin forward.
They are here to sell their own shitcoins, pump their own affinity scams, recruit people to fund and advance their own affinity trash, and they outright lie.
This is why I love Bitcoin bear markets: it washes out the crashouts, lobby lurkers, and people without principles.
And each cycle Bitcoin hardens, gets stronger, and leaves the grifters behind.
Now the Bitcoin bull market can continue without their dead weight. Onward!
Bitcoin messaging matters,⚡️ Part 2
Not everyone who calls themselves a Bitcoiner represents what Bitcoin stands for.
We learned that firsthand in Nashville.
The night before Bitcoin Nashville 2024, we met a few guys in our hotel lobby who were in town for the conference…but not to attend it. They were there to shill their own token on the back of Bitcoin.
We were still new to the Bitcoin space and pretty naive… we sat to chat. They invited us to their private party the next night, put us on the list, and casually shared Shia LaBeouf would be there supporting them. (He wasn’t.)
That was our first real lesson in grifting: anyone can call themselves a Bitcoiner when it benefits them.
So I’ve started asking myself: Do I represent Bitcoin with integrity? And do those around me do the same?
Every time I talk about it, introduce someone to it, or show up as a Bitcoiner, I’m shaping how others see it.
Bitcoin’s message is clear. The people carrying it aren’t always.
Be discerning about who you listen to, trust, and follow. Bitcoin deserves better than those who use its name for personal gain.
So still not getting cracked in many lifetimes.
Nice. 👍
bitcoin:native
Replying to @0xshpd @SujalJethwani
BIP-39 maps 11 bits per word. A 12-word seed encodes 128 bits of entropy. A 24-word seed encodes 256 bits. The extra 128 bits do not reach the private key in any meaningful way, because Bitcoin private keys have a security level of 128 bits regardless of seed length. The ECDSA curve order is 256 bits, but brute-forcing a Bitcoin address via RIPEMD-160 collapses that to 160-bit preimage space, and the actual attack surface against a secp256k1 key sits at roughly 128 bits of effective security.
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The most recent post by ColdCard @COLDCARDwallet is a complete scam and attempt to steal your coins. DO NOT FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS.
The URL redirect is to a site I have never seen @Coinkite @COLDCARDwallet use ever.
This is out of an abundance of caution. I am not linking the post
In my mind this is a guarantee: massive capital destruction in US AI as cheaper Chinese open-source models take share and token prices collapse.
Money will rotate to the bottlenecks that stay scarce.
Hardware (memory, accelerators, networking) because cheaper models drive more usage, not less.
Energy because intelligence is just energy converted at scale and power is the real constraint.
bitcoin:native because it’s the liquid, non-sovereign claim on energy and fixed supply when the overbuilt software layer fails to earn its cost of capital.
Picks, power, and hard money. Everything else gets competed away.
The most likely long-term outcome of the AI boom will be massive capital destruction in the US, with market share going to cheaper open-source Chinese models, according to Jefferies. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
How many more reasons do people need to stick to Bitcoin only?
bitcoin:native and nothing else. It’s simple.
Harry Beckwith retweeted
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.







