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What if AI breaks crypto before quantum computers even get the chance? That sounds like science fiction, but Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake has raised exactly this possibility. The concern is ECDSA, the digital signature algorithm used to authorize transactions on both Bitcoin and Ethereum. Drake suggested that advances in AI-driven mathematics could eventually make it possible to recover a private key from a public key on conventional hardware, potentially using large GPU clusters. In the worst-case scenario, he believes this could become a problem in months rather than years. But to be clear, this is a potential risk, not an existing exploit.