{"id":668188,"date":"2026-10-08T13:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=854261"},"modified":"2026-10-08T13:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:40:06","slug":"bunker-mode-crypto-experts-argue-over-ai-threat-to-bitcoin-ethereum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/08\/bunker-mode-crypto-experts-argue-over-ai-threat-to-bitcoin-ethereum\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bunker Mode\u2019? Crypto Experts Argue Over AI Threat to Bitcoin, Ethereum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/blockchain-researcher-calls-for-bunker-mode-as-ai-threat-grows-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"A bunker on the side of a hill.\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Blockchain researcher Justin Drake is urging cryptocurrency holders to prepare for &#8220;bunker mode,&#8221; warning that artificial intelligence (AI)-driven mathematical discoveries could threaten the cryptography protecting Bitcoin and Ethereum. His proposed defense is surprisingly simple: move assets to fresh addresses that haven&#8217;t exposed their public keys. Drake believes the worst-case timeline for breaking widely used digital [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blockchain researcher Justin Drake is urging cryptocurrency holders to prepare for &#8220;bunker mode,&#8221; warning that artificial intelligence (AI)-driven mathematical discoveries could threaten the cryptography protecting Bitcoin and Ethereum. His proposed defense is surprisingly simple: move assets to fresh addresses that haven&#8217;t exposed their public keys. Drake believes the worst-case timeline for breaking widely used digital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":668189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-668188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin","8":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}